Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a gun at her back, she staggered upstairs, showed them it wasn't in the jewel box. The thugs spotted a 300-lb. safe, told her to open it. "I can't," she wept. "Take it." She knew the ring was in the safe. "Aaah, how can I carry a 300-lb. safe?" the gunman asked in disgust. The pair emptied her jewel box, locked Sayde and the maid in a closet and beat it. Sayde wound up in a hospital with a fractured skull. The crooks' heist...
...Philip himself no longer had to be so circumspect. At a meeting of 6,000 British Legionnaires in Albert Hall last week, he turned to his betrothed as she sat in the royal box and loudly sang: Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major...
Last week, Oregon State's Coach Lon Stiner confessed that his real field general is a salaried alumnus, who sits high above the playing field in the press box. Ex-Halfback Bob Dethman of O.S.C.'s 1942 Rose Bowl team keeps a close eye on the opponents' weaknesses. When he decides what play to call, he telephones to the bench and a substitute relays it to the Oregon State huddle. Says Stiner, who is a member of the rules committee: "All coaches are doing some signal calling. . . . That substitution rule has to be changed...
Ready for the Season. In Missoula, Mont., the U.S. Forestry Service gravely announced that a grizzly bear had broken into a cabin, sneaked off with a hunting knife, an ax, a box of cartridges...
...With four men in the press box, we can put one on each side of the line, one on fullback and quarterback, and one on the halfbacks. Since a team usually runs each play at least twice in an afternoon, it's pretty easy to get every play perfect," Harry adds...