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When constabulary duty's to be done, The policeman's lot is not a happy...
...been designed not to work. To some extent, it was. Sir Robert Peel, who in 1829 organized the first modern force (and gave the bobbies his name), admitted to grave misgivings that it might be used as an instrument of tyranny. Unlike a soldier or civil servant, the British policeman is not a "servant of the Crown" but has the ambiguous legal status of a uniformed civilian who is merely paid to do what every citizen should...
Jennie is a slice of biography dealing with seven months in the life of Actress Laurette Taylor just after the turn of the century. The show opens on a scene that includes a 20-ft. waterfall, a whip-cracking villain, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman tied to a tree, and the heroine (Mary Martin) fighting off savage coolies with a baby in her arms (Oct. 17). The life of Fanny Brice has also been turned into a musical called Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand singing a score by Jule Styne...
...court attendant. Sample day from Bernard Kops's non stop diary: "Near my home one night I was attacked. I didn't feel the blows. It was like fists thudding into dead flesh. I saw stars. On the floor I could see it was a policeman hitting me ... The next day I decided to turn over a new leaf and enter the world of the living dead." And he does...
...came running over, Jim Watson, the night policeman, and a man named Jack Minter. Watson allegedly found "a knife of some sort under Charlie's left leg." The knife was removed and the men went with the Sheriff to take Ware to the hospital in Camilla. According to the prosecution, Ware bit the Sheriff on his right arm and later in the thigh during the trip to the hospital. Minter, supposedly enraged, put a gun against Ware's neck and said: "I'll blow your brains out." The Sheriff then allegedly told him not to shoot. From this incident...