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...make the term 'part-time employment' a misnomer . . . employment at night, particularly in unsuitable occupations, may be a factor in the current rise in juvenile delinquency [TIME, Dec. 14]. [Educators] complain that . . . many [employed children] fail to attend school regularly and those who do attend fall asleep . . . many ... become discouraged and drop out of school...
Scapegoats. In Rome, an announcer broadcast that the British had taken the Mediterranean isle of Linosa after fiercely defending goats fell asleep, had their throats cut by a limey midshipman who sneaked into their midst coated with a lotion that made him smell goaty...
...Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
...Asleep, awake, or in-between, a Yeoman always knows...
...witness was known as "Harry the Horse" Goldman. "It had just begun daybreak," he related, when he had found Hannah and Fight Manager Benny Woodall asleep together; so he just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...