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...with, more or less, the same Scottish clan name should have written some of the best detective stories of the past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club, a secretive woodsy preserve for male members of the Eastern ruling class...
Kojak Acts. In almost every large city across the country, police are in an angry, embattled, sometimes dangerously rebellious mood. During one of the ugly police demonstrations in New York City, the protesting officers spotted Telly Savalas, TV Supercop Kojak, and enthusiastically hoisted him on their shoulders. "I saw that as a significant act," says a sympathetic member of the police brass who was watching. "Kojak is a guy who talks back, who acts." That is, he gruffly tells his boss (and anyone else) to get out of the way so he can do his job -which is what growing...
...this city of losers it is not surprising that Philadelphians usually have little venom left for the disappointments that are really killing them. Frank Rizzo--the supercop of 28 years who once challenged the Black Panthers to a shootout is now the mayor, owning a two-year-old mandate to clean up the streets. An enthusiastic Democrat-for-Nixon, Rizzo has been in trouble for the last two months since a secret police force was discovered investigating his enemies in Philadelphia politics. The Philadelphia Daily News asked him to submit to a lie detector test--a source of evidence...
...sort of documentary of Bumper's last three days before retirement, the book tends to be a bit ostentatious in such honesties, as if they established Bumper's credibility. In the end, Wambaugh sentimentalizes Bumper as a sort of repellently lovable supercop who, whenever he is not strongarming "pukepots," is bantering in Yiddish, Spanish or Arabic with the ethnics on the beat...
...contest in Philadelphia is a study in contrasts: burly ex-Supercop Rizzo against Republican Thacher Longstreth-tall and slender, with Chestnut Hill-Princeton looks and background. Longstreth, a former executive vice president of the city's Chamber of Commerce and an unsuccessful mayoral candidate 16 years ago, was appointed by local G.O.P. Boss William Meehan. Rizzo, who rose through the ranks of the police department, won his party's nomination in a bruising primary battle (TIME, May 31), in which his main pitch was that, as police commissioner, he kept the "radicals" in check, and that he would...