Word: villainizing
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...Turned Sleuth At Harvard. Jupiter Jones, the clever-thinking fast-talking, Fine Arts post-graduate, discovers a murdered professor, and pockets one of the clues. After successfully matching wits with the Cambridge police (which at that time seemed to be no very difficult task) he apprehends the murderer. The villain, of course, in not a Harvard gentlemen but a seedy, dissheveled little man with a foreign accent--who for all one known might be Oscar Maironi thirty years after...
...extent this man is domineering the throne of Britain and the three women that make up the royal family. I am the mother of two, and believe there were strong arguments on both sides of the Margaret-Townsend question, but I'd hate to think that a modern villain-disguised as a Prince Charming-was wielding unseemly power in Buckingham Palace...
Paris consumes only about half the food that pours into Les Halles. The rest is promptly reshipped to the provinces. The villain, as Herber Luethy pointed out trenchantly in France Against Herself (TIME, July 4), is centralization, which in France makes the smallest village council unable to pave a road or fix a school-house roof without the approval of a ministry in Paris, which makes all French roads pivot on Paris like spokes of a wheel, which has discouraged provincial markets and forces produce into Paris to find a buyer. Nearly a third of all France's food...
Time (Rusty Draper; Mercury). A cheerful complaint indeed, considering the scope of the problem, sung over a chuckling, shuffle beat. Chorus: "Time, you're a villain,/Time you're a thief,/ Time you stole my youth from me/and now you bring me grief...
...story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate fest. The Lineup (starring Tom Tully and Warner Anderson) gets its material from the San Francisco police files, and that is where last week's story of an actor with a leaning...