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...inform you that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...
...railroad bridge challenged a shadowy figure, gave chase, and ran him down. It was Town Constable Magne. Said he with quick resourcefulness: "I have a rendezvous with a lady. As a man of honor I cannot divulge her name." But Gallic chivalry could not conceal the paintbrush and paint bucket Magne was holding. Charged with being a whitewashing police officer by day and a paint-slapping Communist by night, Constable Magne was fired last week...
...Torchbearer. In Baltimore, the court found George M. Tunstall guilty of arson, but released him on probation after he testified that he had set a fire in a trash bucket at his home to smoke out his wife, who had shut herself up in a room with another...
...five days the storm abated; two days of calm and clear followed, and then came a new hurricane, wilder than the first. One breaker flooded the Miru's 17-year-old diesel engine, which operated the bilge pump. For two days, Arrow, Donovan, and Davis took turns in a bucket brigade, carting water from the cabin to the deck...
...room, 90-acre, Long Island estate at Muttontown, N.Y., which ex-King Zog of Albania bought last year-at a reported price varying between "a bucket of diamonds" and $105,000-but never occupied, is on the market again. Nassau County advertised its sale on the tax arrears list. The tax lien...