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Chastened by the outcry, Perk last week relented and added four laymen to the commission; but the clergymen remain in the majority. A smart investigator, after all, need not be a prosecutor or a lawyer. Indeed, a corrupt cop might just be more willing to confess to clergymen, if only because they can keep secrets...
Indeed, made-for-TV films are already performing a cultural service by keeping alive the traditional commercial genres that, aside from the cop dramas, are seldom available now in movie houses. Across from Private Slovik, for example, ABC ran The Hanged Man. It was a tidy western-like many of these films a pilot for a possible series-about a sometime hired gun trying to reform himself by helping out the widows and orphans he had formerly oppressed. The picture's highlight was a hellishly ingenious finale in which the hero walked down the heavy into a steamy, bubbling...
...police state of organized crime, Cogan is a top cop-the man behind the hit man, a professional enforcer who solves the crime before he hires the punishment. As an investigator, Cogan favors the direct approach. He sends two of the boys around to "talk about things" with Trattman. When they stop talking, Trattman's nose, jaw and several ribs are broken, but his story is still in one piece...
Nixon was even more forceful in vowing once again that he would not resign. "Resignation is an easy cop-out," he declared, adopting his frequent rhetorical device of posing an artificially easy-or-tough choice. "But resignation of this President on charges of which he is not guilty simply because he happened to be low in the polls would forever change our form of government. It would lead to weak and unstable presidencies in the future, and I will not be a party to the destruction of the presidency of the United States...
...about the workshop that they let Dellinger continue it after his parole. He gets some help from such guests as TV Writer-Producer Rod Serling and Joseph Wambaugh, Los Angeles literary policeman (who last week quit the force to write full time). During his visit, Wambaugh offered Bonanno a cop's role on his TV show Police Story. Bonanno said thanks, but no, "I haven't been that rehabilitated...