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...roads leading to and from the Cambridge Stadium will be carefully patrolled Friday night and Saturday by State police and inspectors of the Registry of Motor Vehicles. The State constabulary of Connecticut are also cooperating in this matter to apprehend any wild driver that may be found on the road between New Haven and Cambridge...
This greatly annoyed Radio-Announcer Walter Brokenchild (Walter N. Greaza), a likeable, unctuous-voiced fellow, supposed to be a satire on real Radio-Announcer Norman Brokenshire of Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...
University proctors ("Mike" Hogarty & Co.), not quick enough to apprehend the vandals, had Christian Student carted off to the university's garage pending reinstatement...
...time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above the arctic circle; rainbows are round, so that no fossil-picks are required to apprehend them...
...from the back seat of his Lincoln limousine, which had been halted in Matawan, N. J., by Policeman Sproul, to answer the policeman's question. Certainly, replied Mr. Rockefeller, the officer might stand on his runningboard and his chauffeur ("Phillips") might overtake a speeder the officer desired to apprehend. Mr. Rockefeller sank back again into the cushions, peered out at a mile of landscape which slipped by in about one minute, watched the officer hand their quarry a summons, handed the officer five new dimes...