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William Parker, a 63-year-old native of Lead, S. Dak., is a crusty cop who neither drinks nor smokes, is married to a former policewoman, and lives in a modest suburban home protected by a massive chain-link fence. He joined the L.A. police force 38 years ago, won a law degree by studying nights and, though little liked by less austere fellow officers, rose rapidly. Parker was appointed chief in 1950. In a traditionally precarious post−the average tenure of his predecessors was 18 months−Parker has lasted 15 years, and made the Los Angeles Police...
...waved her off the road. "But, officer, I couldn't have been speeding," she protested. "My car won't go over 55." Her car was a 1929 Model A Ford. After running his hand along the car's fender and glancing under the running board, the cop replied: "I know that, lady. I'm leaving for Dearborn in my A tomorrow, and I just wanted to see what the competition will be." Both were heading for the annual convention of the Model A Restorers Club, which ended last week. As it turned out, the competition...
...traffic cop stuck a couple of $3 tickets on his Volkswagen when it was parked in a space reserved for Government officials, and Washington's U.S. Attorney David C. Acheson, 45, son of the former Secretary of State, promptly sent the tickets to be fixed. "Since I am a Government official," said he with a combination of hauteur and logic, "it would seem to me that the place was reserved for me." He had not reckoned on Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, 64, a man of many scattered parts, who is known to headline writers...
...1910s, when peddlers on horse-drawn carts began to ladle out vanilla at 15? a pailful, the traveling ice cream man has been an American folk hero. To the young, he has become better known than the fire chief, more welcome than the mailman, more respected than the corner cop. Once, when a Larchmont, N.Y., Good Humor man switched routes, 500 neighborhood tots signed a petition for his return...
...supported himself with odd jobs, including one as a sports rewrite man on a daily paper, another as a hotel detective. (He is an excellent shot with small arms; large guns tend to fire him rather than the bullet.) Gradually, acting jobs began materializing. He played jesters, fools, a cop and a vaudeville performer off-Broadway, made his first Broadway appearance as the insides of a robot in How to Make...