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...after being arrested by Herbert Sparks, former chief superintendent of Scotland Yard's ace flying squad. Passionately attached to liberty, Alfie tried to shorten his twelve-year sentence by escaping from jail three times, lost 13 appeals to the highest courts in the land. All this moved Sleuth Sparks, when he retired in 1962, to write a series of articles in the London Sunday Pictorial pooh-poohing Alfie's claims of innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Reward from a Robbery Rap | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Ordered by the Ministry of Health to sleuth out cases of cacoethes praescri-bendi (a mania for prescribing), Dr. James E. Struthers collected and reported some shockers to the British Medical Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors: Cacoefnes Praescribendi | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...Committee Chairman Peter Granata. Put on Percy's slate were such men as Dwight Eisenhower's brother Earl, 66, the public relations director of a suburban Chicago newspaper chain, which insisted that he resign his job to make the race; onetime Chicago Daily News Reporter and Scandal Sleuth George Thiem, and former TV Weatherman Clint Youle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: With the Courage to Purge | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...pickpocket steals his .38 Colt on a crowded bus. He plunges into the Tokyo underworld to find it; and in a long sequence without a word of dialogue interrupting the flow of images, Kurosawa pulls the viewer right in after him. Mifune joins forces with a wise old sleuth (Takashi Shimura), and the two men track a killer through a series of crimes keyed to the seven deadly bullets in the missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tokyo Manhunt | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...sleuth cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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