Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kent wants to be a good company commander, but when he is not panicky he is petty. Worse for him, capture and torture show him up as a coward. Kicked and loathsomely humiliated, Kent retches but refuses to reveal more than his name, rank and serial number. Then he is shown one of his enlisted men decapitated, and another strung up nude and bayoneted, "streamers of gut sticking to the bare legs." When the Japanese officer shouts, "You, now!" Kent blurts out everything he knows...
...outraged mothers saw: 13 murders and assorted killings, 14 sluggings, six kidnapings, five holdups, three explosions, three instances of blackmail and extortion, three thefts, two armed robberies, two cases of arson, one lynching, one torture scene and one miscarriage. One mother clocked 104 gunshots during a half-hour serial; another found sudden death "shudderingly described" 14 times in 20 minutes...
...Post (circ. 3,998,158) had no picture on its cover. Instead, it carried an announcement of "One of the Great Books of Our Time: Whittaker Chambers' Own Story of the Hiss Case." The Post thought Chambers' Witness so important that it had paid $75,000 for serial rights to the book, due to be published in May and already a Book-of-the-Month Club choice. The Post, which calls its series "'I Was the Witness" will run ten installments, 50,000 words,* the longest consecutive serial in its history. For the first installment, the Post...
Duck Call. In Cleveland, Edward Annen, manager of a linen rental supply firm, glanced at the name and serial number inside a pair of white duck pants a customer had returned by mistake, excitedly telephoned his ex-Seabee son that the pants he lost on Okinawa during the 1945 typhoon had turned...
...Order of the Sons of Temperance, vice president of the Patriotic and Benevolent Order of the Sons of America, and a pillar of the Order of Good Templars. When he relaxed his temperance so far as to be unable to churn out the next installment of a popular serial, "ghosts" carried on until his head was clear again. On one such occasion, he awoke to find that a ghost had maliciously killed off his hero in the middle of the serial. Buntline blandly carried on-using the dead hero in spirit form...