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...CRIMSON--floundering wildly to keep up with his fast and shifty trail. The Sergeant's story had thrown off everybody but the Berkeley Street sources, and they had tripped him up. As one police reporter explained it all when the first calls went through to Los Angeles: "No cop comes to Boston to look at the Bunker Hill monument...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/13/1951 | See Source »

Police Grilling. LIFE'S McCombe had photographed most of these events, returned to his room in the Plaza Hotel. There, just after midnight, all the lights flashed on. Four men were standing by his bed. A beefy cop tugged at the bedclothes and said: "Venga [Come along]." As McCombe dressed, agents ransacked his luggage and confiscated a camera. Meanwhile, in his third-floor apartment, TIME'S Shea was also roused by the midnight knock of two plainclothes policemen. They told him he was wanted for questioning in connection with the afternoon's trouble at La Prensa. Shea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Murder at La Prensa | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Author of the letter was Genevieve Geller, newly-elected editor of the "Wellesley College News," who hopes students will do the proper thing with the innocuous eyesore." Miss Geller, referred to in the latest issue of the "News" as "that luscious and charming grass cop," is also "singles and doubles outdoor and indoor Russian Roulette Champion" and Head of Grounds Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Junior Asks for Fower Bottles on Weekends | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

When the policeman found Mrs. Dorothy Mae ("Johnny") Stevens, 23, lying in a Chicago alley at 7:45 a.m., the temperature was eleven below, and Johnny was apparently dead. Her body seemed as hard as a rock. Said the cop: "I could have sworn she was dead except all of a sudden she groaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deep-Frozen Woman | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...remember our EDUCATION section's story on the New York City school strike last year. Several thousand students marched to City Hall to protest denial of a $600-a-year pay raise for teachers. With our story ran a picture of a mounted cop trying to hold back the laughing, waving crowd of high-school kids. USA printed the picture months later, captioned along a now-familiar Communist line: "In New York's Union Square a monster rally for peace was staged, which, in spite of all attempts by police to break it up, turned into a powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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