Word: killer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, like the movie as a whole, is a nice blend of journalistic hardheadedness and softheartedness. Peering through windows, late on a summer night, the camera finds a room in which a girl is being murdered. There is the killer, but the watcher knows neither his identity nor his motive. The body is found and the news buzzes through to Homicide. During the balance of the show, the audience follows a veteran detective (Barry Fitzgerald), his young helper (Don Taylor) and a swarm of assistants, from laboratory experts to pavement pounders, at the long hard job of smelling out suspects...
...Killer McCoy (MGM) is a slum boy (Mickey Rooney) who becomes a ranking boxer. He falls in love with a finishing-school girl (Ann Blyth) who does not realize that her father (Brian Donlevy) is a big-time gambler. The rest of the story runs true to type. The hero's father is a no-account souse (nicely played by James Dunn); and whenever the laughter, tears or plot complications get too tiresome, there's always another fight to watch. The whole picture is so disarmingly old-fashioned that it is almost likable-but not quite...
...families. His sister has become a prostitute, his son a thief. There are few kafferboeties, or white men who work for the welfare of the blacks. One of them is killed by a housebreaker, and to his terrible sorrow the old man learns that his son Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions in which there seems little but heartbreak for the just and disinterested. Although it is as much meditation as fiction in certain parts, and the meditation is not always as profound as it is impassioned...
...onion may be coming back into medical fashion. The Russians have discovered that onion and garlic vapors heal wounds (TIME, March 13, 1944). They called the germ-killing substance a phytoncide (meaning: a killer derived from plants). Now Food Chemist Edward F. Kohman has found that the active chemical agent in onions is a thioaldehyde, a close relative of the common antiseptic, formaldehyde. Chemist Kohman put raw onions through an ordinary household meat grinder, distilled the onion vapors, put them through a series of chemical tests. In a recent issue of Science, he reported finding about 1/20 of a gram...
Tenor Regan, who is now 41, joined the New York police force in 1931. While a rookie, he captured a killer, and was promoted into plainclothes. He was just a dick, singing for his own pleasure at a party, when a CBS executive heard him, auditioned him for the Burns & Allen show. Then Movie Director Clarence Brown saw him dancing with Gracie Allen at a party, and signed him for a picture. Since then he has made more than a dozen unsensational B-movies (Sweet Adeline, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi) and a fairly sensational $100,000 a year...