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Turning from the gilded window, I took my wonder to a wise old cop I know. He used to work in Boston but he's been a University policeman for years. "Has there really been a change," I asked him. "Or do I just imagine...
Dean Martin can sure liven up a picture. In Kiss Me, Stupid--Billy Wilder's long awaited Armageddon--a cop walked up to Martin, who said, "Haven't you found that Sinatra...
...reason for the outcry was ethnic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans and other minority groups generally approved of Garelik's promotion, though as the first Jew in memory to become chief inspector, he lacked the Hibernian seal of approval from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society...
Died. Burris Jenkins Jr., 69, editorial cartoonist since 1931 for the New York Journal-American, a minister's son who liked to say that "cartoonists are just frustrated preachers," proved his point with such pieces as his 1957 sketch of Uncle Sam as Little Rock's "New Cop on the Beat" and other drawings aimed at foes from Klansmen to Castro; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...blurred reason. Most spectators joined in the fun. One wore a toga made from an American flag, another sported a sign reading: "You're in the Pepsi generation, I'm a pimply freak." A girl dancer stripped to the waist, had to be rerobed by a friendly cop...