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...police force as a rookie. His neat uniform, pistol and dark gloves had the desired effect on females; he came to work with a girl on each arm, stole off with women when on patrol duty-and was dropped from the force. He got another job as a rookie cop on the police force of nearby Glendora. After two months the chief called him in and fired him. The reason: women. Colson picked up his pistol, put it to his head and said, "I bet you don't think I got guts enough to pull the trigger. You wanta...
...with his mother. The 26-year-old ex-hero seemed to have plenty of money saved; he bought a maroon and black Ford, and took occasional trips back to California, where he dropped in at the Monterey Park police station to ask for a fresh chance to become a cop...
...Lamy hurried to a telephone and told a friend: "It's me, Roger Lamy." "It is a poor time for jokes," replied the friend. "Roger is dead." The local police, when he called them, were equally unamused; "Funny business is not funny when it concerns the police," a cop growled. He agreed at last, as a public service, to transmit the dead man's message to his sister. The first real partisan Roger found in his fight for life was a Professor from the Lycee. "I would never leave a man alone in a situation like this," said...
...next to Durban's main railroad station, sat down on a bench marked in large white letters: "For Europeans Only." A policeman strode up, and demanded the violator's name. The man gave it: Manilal Gandhi; age, 58; occupation, editor of the Durban weekly Indian Opinion. The cop told him a summons would be issued. Gandhi went home to his farm outside Durban to wait...
...Ford in Manhattan when he saw a policeman dragging a small, hard-faced U.S. sailor out of the Customs House. The sailor, just released from the Navy after a seven-year hitch, had got in a quarrel with customs men, and was knocking them down right & left until the cop subdued him. Editor Brisbane liked the bantam gamecock's looks, got him released, and took him along to meet the auto magnate. On hearing Brisbane's account of the battle, Ford told 24-year-old Harry Bennett: "I can use a young man like you at the Rouge...