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...area, others brought heavy tanks of liquid petroleum gas into the canyon and slowly began burning away the top layer of snow. A piece of tin foil-perhaps from the fresh roll of film in the camera-turned up; the melting snow ran off to reveal blood stains. A policeman with a broom lightly swept snow from the spot in an attempt to unearth footprints. He found none. Police squads began checking reports about an auto that had been seen at the head of the trail. The film in the camera revealed only smiling photos of Frankie Murphy and Mildred...
Hard Cover. In Los Angeles, after James E. Fitzgerald, 23, was arrested on charges of kidnaping and robbing a policeman, looting a cafe, shaking down a pedestrian, shooting another and holding up a liquor store twice, he told cops that he was a Bible salesman...
Head Set. In Toledo, Ohio, hit by a car, Sadie McGrath, 70, indignantly rejected a policeman's suggestion that she see a doctor, declared: "I have an appointment with my hairdresser, and I'm not going to break...
...policeman lectured him: "You know you are free to attend Vice President Chang's meeting, don't you? You know we police won't try to prevent you?" The sobbing boy bowed low, and the officer continued: "But you insist on marching along shouting 'We want our freedom!' You know that represents a political demonstration against the government, don't you?" Bowing repeatedly, the student tried to beg forgiveness, but the cop interrupted him: "Now, we will not allow you to attend the meeting. On account of your bad behavior you must come with...
...Living Newspaper," a flexible skit touched off by items in the press. When discoveries of police corruption recently scandalized the Chicago area from Cicero to Lake Forest, a Second City actress would rush onstage each night, frantically dial a number and say: "Hello, FBI? There's a policeman hanging around in front of my house." Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd is nightly impersonated in a minstrel show, puts on blackface and sings: "How I love to pick old massa's cotton." But "the thing I like most," adds Byrd, "is to take this...