Word: raids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planning a big midnight vice raid last week on the dock area, Brooklyn's District Attorney Edward S. Silver called in the press for an advance briefing, with the understanding that the story would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were...
...Force's Pacific headquarters in Hawaii: Brooklyn-born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...
...When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...
Fuggerei, as the walled district came to be known, was 80% destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in October 1944. But it has been rebuilt in the old style-a quiet place of little yellow-and-green medieval houses, where vehicular traffic and "noisy trades" are prohibited, and where the four gates are locked at 10 p.m. nightly, as they have been since 1521. Anyone who stays out too late must...
Planning to capture the biggest bandit of them all, Venka teams up with a peasant named Baukin, himself a former bandit who has gone straight. When the big raid is finished and the big bad chief is captured, Venka gives all credit to his peasant partner, assumes that he will be treated decently as a reward for his help. Instead, Venka's boss takes credit for the job as a Communist coup, has Baukin arrested as a common criminal. In a climax out of keeping with Venka's character, the young hero puts a bullet through his brain...