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Pale Cast of Thought. In Kansas City, Mo., a would-be stickup man waved a gun at Grocery Checker Mrs. Thelma Adams, thought things over for a moment, fled the store after muttering: "No, I guess it's not a holdup...
Fellow workers in the Nairobi office of East African Railways were surprised to learn that quiet, spectacled Walter Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William...
...night in every window a light burns. It is a brilliant spectacle. Over the Kremlin hang huge, glowing ruby stars, around" Izvestia's office the news headlines run in lights like those on the New York Times building in Times Square. There are plenty of taxicabs (all checker banded) to take the visitor to a restaurant-the Aragva, the Praga, the Peking, the New Yar-where he will probably hear American jazz badly played and pay possibly $20 for an indifferent meal, though the caviar, the tea and the ice cream will be excellent. But Moscow night life, except...
...succeeding Whitley P. McCoy, who resigned. A graduate of Columbia ('28) and Fordham Law School ('31), Finnegan helped pay his way through school by writing a question-and-answer column for investors in the Wall Street Journal and working on Brooklyn piers as a cargo checker. After a three-year stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, he joined a private law firm, and in 1948 hung out his own shingle. As background for his new $16,000-a-year post, Republican Joe Finnegan has done an impressive amount of arbitration and mediation work, approved by both...
...alternating defense pair will include the squad's most experienced checker, Ned Almy, who saw action last season as second defenseman. Converted wingman Arty Noyes will team up with...