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This Webb person seems to be able to ineptly do all of these things, and from the professional point of view personifies not the true modern-day police detective, but what was formerly known as a "fly cop" [a sharp cop], and "that's a fact, ma'am" ... As for the officers who write asking Webb if he is a genuine member of the police department-they must be constables from Nellie's Apron or Possum Trot. The outstanding characteristic that he portrays is police mediocrity. One day he is looking for a little boy pulling...
There was not much doubt about who the finalists would be. Top-seeded was Defending Champion Bob Brady, 30, a muscular (5 ft 11 in., 178 Ibs.) San Francisco cop, who learned his handball at Central High School in Butte, Mont. Seeded No. 2 was stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 173 Ibs.) Brooklyn Fireman Vic Hershkowitz, 35, who won his first tournament at Coney Island in 1938. Since then, Hershkowitz has won 14 national titles, including (in 1952) the one-three-and four-wall singles...
...flood of Dragnet fan mail suggests that the U.S. completely forgets that it is a nation of incipient cop haters when its eyes are glued on Webb's show; that it has gained a new appreciation of the underpaid, long-suffering ordinary policeman, and in many cases its first rudimentary understanding of real-life law enforcement. As Sergeant Friday-a decent, harassed, hard-working fellow-Jack Webb is such a convincingly realistic detective that many a cop has written in to ask if he is not a genuine member of the Los Angeles Police Department...
...That's What I Mean." On the set of He Walked by Night, Webb met the technical adviser, a rotund, cheerful Los Angeles detective sergeant named Marty Wynn. "It rankles every damn cop in the country when they hear those farfetched stories about crime," Wynn said to Webb. "Why don't you do a real story about policemen?" Wynn forgot the conversation in an hour. But three weeks later Webb arrived with Radio Producer Bill Rousseau at the Los Angeles police academy, where Wynn was taking a refresher course in criminal law and rules of evidence. Webb asked...
...police Chevrolet, listening to the radio's unemotional reports of crime and human weakness, watching every move of the two detectives. After hours, he asked for coaching. How did they frisk a suspect? How did they kick in a door? Once he told Wynn: "Talk like a cop." The detective bristled. "We don't talk any different than you do." "Well," said Webb, "what would you do if you had a suspect?" Said Wynn: "Why, I'd go down to R & I [Records and Identification] and pull the package . . ." Cried Webb: "That's what I mean...