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From the "talebearer" condemned in Ecclesiastes to the "stool-pigeon" villain of the modern-day comic book, the informer has traditionally been the object of peculiar contempt on the part of his fellow citizens. Perhaps this hatred of the man who betrays his fellows has reached its height in the United States--from childhood on, almost every. American absorbs a dread of "tattling". The emotion has become deeply ingrained in our society...
...squalid liar. Its failure to expose a false witness the Government had used played into the hands of the anti-anti-Communists who want the public to believe that all anti-Communist witnesses are perjurers. Even the Baltimore Sun editorialized that the Matusow case "reminds us that stool pigeons are as a class to be despised and not to be trusted." Matusow's old contest sponsor, the Daily Worker, began serializing his recantations. The real cause of real anti-Communism had been gravely damaged by the people who believed-or pretended to believe-Harvey Matusow...
...Crime, which author Joseph F. Dinneen claims to be "a startling parallel" to the unsolved bank's robbery of five years ago. Despite its literary deficiencies, the book contains some interesting insights into the relationships between the F.B.I. and local authorities and between the police and their "stool pigeons"; in short, it is excellent material for a movie, or rather it was before being distorted in 6 Bridges to Cross...
Dealing with the latter problem, the film describes the symbiotic association of a cop and his "stoolie." The cop rises from a rookie patrolman to a plain-clothes lieutenant on the strength of tips from his informer. In exchange, the "stool pigeon" receives pardons and paroles for crimes he commits in other districts, and in the process, he progresses for apple snatching in Hay-market Square to the $2,500,000 theft. As the camera moves gracefully from one non sequitur to the next, the fatherly policeman is alternately hopeful and disillusioned in his efforts to reform the informer...
...Grock spent hours and years polishing and perfecting the details of his performance. But he never tampered with its essential ingredients, which were as simple and absurd as life itself: a tiny fiddle produced from a monstrous case, the almost miraculous discovery that it is easier to push a stool toward a piano than it is to push a piano toward a stool, his look of ecstatic appreciation at a single sour musical note produced all by himself. In such endless re-enactment of simple and simple-minded truth, everyman could forget his own absurdity and laugh instead at Crock...