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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That winter, the renowned Harvard owl had taken up residence in the Yard, and coonskin-clad candidates chased him from tree to tree 'mid encouraging hoots from the spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Battle Lacks Spirit of Other Years | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...haul has bought only three things: an open season on armored trucks, a few Hallowe'en mask robberies, and a noticeable decline of crime in Massachusetts. Robberies in the Boston area took a noticeable downward trend after January 17 last, when seen men "of medium height and weight," clad in navy pea jackets and wearing grotesque Hallowe'en masks, carried out the largest cash robbery in American history. The records of what the local newspapers like to call "Boston's crack Criminal Investigation Department" show very few major larcenies in Massachusetts in the last eleven months...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

...only be described as a Sensational Experience. Bands, clowns, floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...founded his Nationalist Party (estimated membership: 1,000) in the '205, strutted the streets of Puerto Rican villages clad in flowing cape and Homburg. After President Roosevelt's visit in 1934, he shrieked: "Cowards, you should have received Roosevelt with bullets but you greeted him with flowers." In 1936 one of his terrorists assassinated the island police chief. As a result of the murder, Albizu was arrested for conspiring to overthrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurrection | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...compelling was the Band's music that from several doorways came hastily-clad Princetons escorting girls in negligees and fur coats. Then, as the dates of the Band members stared through their fingers in disbelief, a nude Tiger in a highly agitated state appeared on a fourth floor ledge and shouted a greeting to the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parties, TD's Mark Big Weekend; Moral Band Flushes Out Sinners | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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