Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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some of the authentic seenes of the workings of the Yard are good, particularly the scientific car chase with several prowl cars in radio contact encircling the killer; but these few scenes are not enough to make an interesting movie. The story is ordinary cops and robbers at heart. The killer's bungling, instead of the brilliance of Scotland yard, leads to his final capture...
...publicity release says, "The Blue Lamp' is probably the only picture for which a script was written in the front seat of a police prowl car." Maybe that's why the author forgot that authentic photography alone can't make a good movie...
...Manhattan's Harlem prowl some of the nation's most vicious teen-age gangs, and neither police watchfulness nor the usual type of social work has done much good against them.* Three years ago, the privately financed Welfare Council of New York City started a simple experiment in infiltration. To four of the worst gangs in Central Harlem-the Jay Bees, the Gay Blades, the Royals and the Knights-it assigned four young social workers, three of them Negroes. By last week, the council was able to tell, in a 162-page report, what its social workers...
...Victor was out to wrap up a fast-selling Christmas package (and incidentally promote its 45-r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
After two days in port, the Juneau went on the prowl again. I was aboard when she left the harbor, riding low in the water from the heaviest load of ammunition she had ever carried. As we put off, a 40-man U.S. Marine guard in knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...