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...Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop, "a man without guile, walking perhaps to death when his heart was full of new life." Winchell's old vaudeville training stood him in good stead, especially when he had to talk about "the tabloid fury of the only city that never truly goes to sleep" or play amateur detective...
...began chasing them back down the block. Other whites streamed behind. A one-armed man, his dimpled stump below his shirtsleeve, swung wildly at one Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started it!" A huge man came up behind Karam and said: "Get five or six boys, and get them over there where the nigger kids came...
...After a cop was hit by a rock, troopers drove off the crowd with swinging nightsticks, banned further assembly in the area by more than three people at a time. But since the ban, agitators have perfected subtler methods of tormenting Myers. They take turns each evening slamming a heavy mailbox door near his house, stop their automobiles to catcall or toot bugles...
...Each His Own. In Denver, Bank Robber Clayton C. Kemp was nabbed as he boarded a bus, readily gave up the $11,200 loot, but when a cop grabbed the dollar bill he was clutching for bus fare, he yelled hotly: "Hey. that's my own money...
...Portland, Me., nabbed for disorderly conduct, Genevieve Lynch, 24, was being ushered into a cell when she tore the badge off the arresting patrolman, grabbed his tie and tried to choke him when he went after it, bit the leg of a second cop rushing in for the rescue, dug her teeth into the hand of a lieutenant who hoped to rescue his two casualties, was finally subdued and put in a cell by a fourth policeman who hurriedly slammed the cell door shut-square on his left hand...