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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., April 17--Tritium, an ingredient of the fearsome H-bomb, offers new humanitarian aid as a sleuth in the quest for the cause of cancer...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Castro Speaks for Free Press Before American News Editors; Tritium Helps in Cancer Studies | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long-lens camera, wiretap recorder, pocket mikes, etc.-to sleuth on any citizen suspected of disagreeing with white-supremacy dogma. Finding Georgia too small for his ambition, he got authority to spend taxpayer money publicizing racial conditions all over the U.S. Hammering his stock line that integration of the races is a Communist plot, Williams felt free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Wrong Target | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...Hoteluminary G. David Schine and his toothsome bride Hillevi, Miss Universe in 1956, embarked in Southampton on a five-day British junket. Schine, the U.S. Army's most publicized G.I. after his amateur gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam. Unlike his 1953 visit with youthful Sleuth Roy Cohn, when the two sparked "Go Home" headlines for their plan of "inspecting the BBC," Schine arrived almost unnoticed, seemed oddly quiet about his Rover Boy past. Asked a reporter: Does he regret his McCarthy ties? Hedged David: "I'd rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Marquis of Queensberry rules, or the letter of the law. Their most common offenses: simple assault, breaking and entering, petty larceny. The most conspicuous sleuth programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Snoopers | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Perry Mason (Sat. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). Erie Stanley Gardner's famed lawyer-sleuth (Raymond Burr) is constantly embroiled in the best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Snoopers | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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