Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Friendly Gesture. The sheriff of Dade County (Miami), an ex-prize fighter and traffic cop named Jimmy Sullivan, also gave a fine performance. He appeared before the committee flanked by a lawyer and a tax accountant and declared 1) that his assets had increased from $2,500 in 1944 (when he was elected sheriff) to $70,000 in 1948, and 2) that after federal income-tax authorities had questioned some of his returns, he had amended them to include $50,000 more income than showed on the originals. But he explained that his increase in wealth had come only from...
Like Robin Hood's men, his army would strike swiftly in small groups-kidnaping some purse-proud landlord here, killing a sheriff's man there-and fade elusively into mountain caves, vineyards and wheatfields. In seven years Giuliano's men had killed 79 national carabinieri, 25 local policemen, 40 civilians. They had collected more than $1,000,000 in ransoms from 30 kidnapings. Like Robin Hood's men they were said to rob only the rich & powerful. Half in hero worship and half in fear, the local peasants clamped their lips tight and kept their faces...
...Tulsa, J. C. Hunter, president of the Ralph Talbot theater chain, took matters into his own hands. To boost lagging business on 20th Century-Fox's farce railroad western A Ticket to Tomahawk, he renamed it The Sheriff's Daughter, and his box office boomed. Last week Fox officials grudgingly admitted that Theaterman Hunter might have a good point. The studio gave all exhibitors permission to substitute the more inviting title for A Ticket to Tomahawk...
...worn, broke and hankering to live out his days peaceably with his estranged wife and son. He rides into a town behind the frontier to find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers of his latest victim are moving in for their own revenge; a cocky young loafer is itching to win glory...
Voice of the People. In Atlanta, Paul Lee Miller, booked for impersonating an officer, told police that he felt entitled to wear a badge because he was once "almost elected sheriff" in Oak Ridge, Tenn...