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Narrow Escape. Meanwhile, New York's police blotter showed that the world had barely missed an intensification of the crisis. On the night before the fateful holdup, one Joseph J. Hall set out on a nefarious enterprise with one Ronald E. Fisher. But when Hall realized that Fisher was trying to make him rob a church, he got religion and called the police: "We broke into a church, but I'm not going through with it." The house of God on East Fourth Street, thus providentially spared, was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America...
Desk Sergeant Finnegan on duty at the Cambridge Police station last night corroborated this impression for all of the city, after consultation with his blotter showed a few minor larcenies. Boston police, however, listed a $2000 jewelry and clothing theft from a Sarah Lawrence Crimson fan, Miss Margaret Taylor...
...HAVEN--Nov. 22--More light was shed on Yale drinking habits today, when the New Haven police blotter this evening showed "three men from the local college" booked on two counts, "drunken assault and subversive activities...
...reporters on Chicago's grimy police beat are not likely to be treated with courtesy. But this one was. Last week at the East Chicago Avenue station, the police lieutenant on duty deferentially showed him the lockup, the blotter, wished him the best of luck. At the County Building, Coroner A. L. Brodie bustled about, personally paced the newcomer through the office routine. Young (30), Harvard-accented Marshall Field IV took everything in with urbane interest. He was entering Phase 2 of his journalistic education...
...McCarey, handsome, Irish writer-director who won two 1944 Hollywood Oscars for Going My Way, was booked in Los Angeles on a drunken driving charge, jailed for 5½ hours, released on $250 bail, ordered to appear for trial April 25. His description on the police blotter: "belligerent...