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Just at the corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought...
Barchester Towers (adapted by Thomas Job from the novel by Anthony Trollope; produced by Guthrie McClintick). For many years Anthony Trollope, the prolific mid-19th Century novelist, worked as an inspector for the Irish Post Office and is credited with saving all subsequent generations of mankind many steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close...
...addressed his question to me but before I could answer, Walter Walsh told him to "Stick 'em up." Dalhover never fired although I believe it was his first intention to do so and slowly put his hands up. He was marched to the rear of the store where Inspector Hayes put the cuffs...
wife visited Manhattan's Police Headquarters. They were accosted by Deputy Inspector Hugo Wunsche. Asked he: "Do you remember being arrested in New York for speeding 25 years...
...Hansa'?, crew was the result of their inhaling hydrocyanic acid gas left in the hold when she was last fumigated against rats. No law required him to report this kind of accident to Chief Quarantine Officer Akin. So the Hansa steamed past Quarantine, docked, debarked 993 passengers. An inspector of the U. S. Immigration Service, Dr. Henry M. Friedman, went aboard for a look-round. What he saw in the crew's hospital sent him running to telephone Dr. Akin. He suspected that the Hansa had typhoid fever aboard...