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Beau Jack is no Joe Louis, but he is a busy little fighter. His real name is Sidney Walker and he is an orphan. When he was a moppet, he was found asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps get stalled on the lawn, neighbors scream for the police, and the family unseasonably returns. By 2 a.m., however, everything's shipshape and everyone's asleep...
...Dream. In Manhattan, Vincent Newman perched on a fence, a rope around his neck, told police he hoped to fall asleep and hang himself...
Harvard students should have little difficulty observing the blackout. The great majority will be asleep, but if the siren wakes them, they must remember not to turn on a light to see what it's all about, and, more important, to leave no lights burning when they go to bed. Those who keep late hours must be warned again that only if a room is equipped with approved blackout shades may any light be left on. Ordinary shades are not sufficient. And no matter how beautiful the night, they must keep indoors during the test. Anyone not on official...
Where, Then? In Manhattan, a cop in a park heard snoring, found Ahmed Hassen asleep in a tree, hauled him off to court. Hassen told the judge that he slept in trees because sleeping on benches was forbidden...