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...British ambassadors told what really happened. One sunny afternoon Group Captain Masterman and Colonel Teberg, out for a picnic in the countryside, were driving along the main highway north of Prague in Masterman's car. At a crossroads near Milovice they were stopped by a military policeman and directed to turn off down a side road that bordered on an airfield. About 500 yds. down the road, Masterman found his progress blocked by an army truck planted in the middle of the road. He stopped. Before he could turn around, another truck drove up close behind him, making...
...Well, Anyhow. In Brisbane, Australia. Salesman James Bernard Donohue was arrested for wearing a uniform and impersonating a policeman while selling advertising for a booklet entitled ''Crime Does...
...Buster Keaton Story (Paramount). The policeman circled the object suspiciously. Its face looked like something that had crawled up through the collar and died. On top of it, as though to keep the flies off, sat a filthy felt skimmer the shape of a garbage-can lid. The soup-stained Ascot tie was asserted by a simple clothespin. The black serge suit was sizes too small and green with experience. The slap shoes were as big as cantaloupe crates...
...policeman fingered his chin. Should he take the thing to jail or to the city dump? And then all at once it started running. In an instant the entire police force was in hippopotamous pursuit. Horses bolted; pedestrians bounced like skittles. But just as the long arm of the law was on his shoulder, the fugitive took a flying leap at the tummy of a startled fat lady. As he hit head first, her midriff split up the middle and swung inward like saloon doors. The fugitive plunged through-and disappeared...
...Candler Canfield was less amused when she herself was arrested on a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice (she had lied in giving Boy Friend Bradshaw an alibi for the dynamiting). Said she to the McClellan committee: "There was a state policeman stood there for a while watching us, and after him Detective Welch came in to see we didn't leave the room, and after him [Detective] Wojciechowski came in, and since this was early in the morning and I was not allowed in the ladies' room, and it was 2 o'clock before we were...