Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn apartments of the two witnesses. Police in pairs stayed with them day and night. For both menand their wives-the homecoming was a nightmare. "How can I clean house with policemen in the way?" lamented Mrs. Noto. "How can we sleep? If my husband goes to bed, one policeman sits at the bedroom door and another by the window. All they need to do is put one under...
...generally indifferent acting also hurt In the Lion's Mouth. None of the actors gave their characters warmth or feeling. Both Arnold Aaron as the policeman and Andre Gregory as the sometime communist were too intellectual in their approaches, cutting off the audience's sympathy. And in fairness to the author, lines suggesting the human quality of the characters were quite evident. Messers. Aaron and Gregory, nevertheless, were quite consistent in their portrayals, and my quarrel is rather with their conception of the characters than with their skill...
...death cell at Nairobi one day last February, China convinced his captors that the Mau Mau, reduced to dispirited remnants, were ready to surrender if the British would give a sign. On the order of the governor of Kenya, he was smuggled out of jail, disguised as an African policeman and flown to Nyeri, where he set to work to write letters to his Mau Mau colleagues. China's letters offered safe conduct to Mau Mau representatives if they would meet British officers to talk over a truce...
...sheriff in Las Vegas, Nev.). Although Gugel got back his job as police chief after he was acquitted on the nonfeasance charge, he still faced a federal indictment for his attack on Photographer Bailey. Last week in a U.S. District Court in Covington, Ky., a federal jury found that Policeman Gugel had exceeded his powers, convicted him of violating Photographer Bailey's civil rights and fined him $1,000 plus court costs. Said District judge MacSwinford: "Bailey was performing his duties and had a right to take pictures [and] the right to his liberty. [He] took the pictures...
Dangerous Mission (RKO Radio) is a misguided tour of Glacier National Park in which the public inspects such unnatural phenomena as a studio glacier, a special-effects forest fire, an avalanche in miniature and Victor Mature. Actor Mature is a policeman from New York who has gone west to put the arm on a murder-case witness (Piper Laurie). One look at Piper and he offers both arms...