“In theory we were the nation’s police blotter,” Stroud explains, “We were diagnosticians of crime if the FBI had to go to press once a month, that would be us.” All they want to do all day is read and write and argue about crime, and regularly solve one too.įar more than banner headlines and semi-colons are at stake when the editors get together.
Crimeways occupies the Janoth building’s 26th floor, where George Stroud has an office among the magazine’s other editors and six staff writers. It is one of a number of publications from Janoth Enterprises that fill the top nine floors of the Janoth Building in Manhattan: Newsways, Futureways, Sportland, Frequency (radio & TV), Fashions, The Frozen Age (food products), Commerce Index, The Sexes (love affairs, marriages, break-ups).
The big clock fearing movie#
My dream magazine never saw print or even cut a paycheck yet remains tantalizingly real: It’s the magazine where George Stroud works as executive editor, Crimeways, in Kenneth Fearing’s 1946 suspense novel The Big Clock and in the movie adaptation, where George is played with indomitable smoothness by Ray Milland.Ĭrimeways is no tabloid trafficking in sloppy murder shots captioned with lurid puns. Not the hard-drinking Harold Hayes-era Esquire, or Breslin’s Daily News, with its smoke and banter, or even Life in its photographic prime. There is a certain publication I would gladly go to work for over most others.
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