Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases. Says Reed: "For example, we'll have a razor fight, fast and bloody-a major case. Then there'll be one about a little boy who steals newspapers, a quiet thing." But this week Reed devoted his entire show to the capture of a teen-age burglar. Hearing that a prowler had been spotted in a gas station, Reed and Police Sergeant Ron Perkins raced to the spot and caught the thief in action. Reed was showered with glass as the boy made a break for it through the window, but had his microphone ready...
...show's end, Police Chief William Hildebrand gives the disposition of each case (the boy burglar went to reform school) and adds a few pious words to the effect that Night Watch is presented "in the interests of public security." The show's sensationalism is likely to win it a large audience and an eager sponsor...
Captain Matthew J. Toohy of the University Police said last night that the robber is very likely the same burglar who earlier in the year raided rooms in Dunster and Leverett Houses and Hastings Hall. All four of these cases took place in unlocked rooms early in the morning, and involved the loss of watches and money...
...night watchmen find-time for personal relaxation while they sit in their offices, their ears attuned for phone calls and sounds of misbehavior. Many of them snatch glances at their favorite magazines, when no one is looking. Dugald Livingston of the Chemistry Laboratories, however, is an individualist. Any burglar second-storying his way into Mallinokrodt on the nights when Livingstond is on duty would be greeted with the errie sound of clarinet figures echoling up and down the shadowed stairways...
...What, Who's Who in Commerce and Industry and several other similar books in which names often go that do not make the parent edition. For imitators who pirate his list for other books, Editor Sammons has devised a neat trap. Under every alphabetical division, he has a "burglar alarm," a fake listing of a nonexistent person with an address that leads right back to Who's Who's door. Pirates trapped last year...