Word: plainclothesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a strange television affinity between crime shows and tobacco. Tracy's good friend, Ralph Bellamy, stars in Man Against Crime for Camel cigarettes; The Adventures of Ellery Queen (starring Lee Bowman) touts Phillies cigars; Dragnet (with Jack Webb) hawks Fatimas, and The Plainclothesman (Ken Lynch) works for Edgeworth tobacco. Like many things about TV, this fact puzzles Tracy: "I guess there must be some tie-up between smoking and tension...
...Duke of Windsor, after a bout of stomach trouble in Italy (with diagnoses ranging from gastroenteritis to ulcers), arrived in Paris with another ailment: an attack of lumbago so severe that the duchess and a plainclothesman had to help him off the train and into a waiting limousine, where he sat beside the chauffeur to get more leg room...
...uniformed private named Leslie Coffelt went down, dying, with bullets in his chest, stomach and legs; Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs toppled over, shot in the stomach and chest. There was one last cacophony of shots, shouts and tinkling glass. The first gunman, bending over, frantically trying to reload, was hit and sprawled out, hat awry, heels kicking; the second lurched backward over a low boxwood hedge, stone dead with a bullet through his ears...
...suspect that someone is following you, walk past the nearest police station. When the plainclothesman nears the station, turn back in time to meet him at the entrance, seize him and take him inside. Explain to the police officer in the station that you've arrested the detective and demand that he be punished...
...Copper's Pay. Bill Drury was a plainclothesman but his clothes made a mockery of the title-his suits were" about as plain as a Capone mobster's funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather...