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...taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer: the Pacific. The taxi driver drove off as though he had just seen the biggest traffic cop in the world...
...picture is contrived to the greatest extreme, as when O'Brien is running away from a group of desperate criminals. A bus with the doors open appears out of nowhere to pick him up; when he gets off the bus, a cop is standing outside the door. The bus just happens to be heading where he is going...
...cop who takes $5 from a bookie becomes the public official who'll take $100 to look the over way on a murder or a rape," he said...
...have raided gambling joints and found accounts like this, in the bookie's own handwriting: Fix, $75, Co, $25, Cop, $10, Cop, $5. Lawyer...
Accomplice. In Norwalk, Conn., a dental patient, making for the nearest exit, went down the dentist's third-floor fire escape, ran into a cop who escorted him back upstairs to complete his appointment...