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...officer was the chief culprit: Lieut. Commander C. Anthony Law, D.S.C., C.D., the "Maggie's" top training officer and onetime Canadian war artist, had started a drawing and painting class for 23 sailors who knew nothing about...
...board of three rear admirals last week fixed the blame for the mid-Atlantic collision between the aircraft carrier Wasp and the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson last April (TIME, May 5). The convicted culprit was not there to hear the verdict: Commanding Officer William J. Tierney went down with his ship...
Several years ago the daughter of the president of Colby College and her escort were walking by the spacious Observatory grounds, when a burglar jumped out of the darkness and snatched her purse containing $1.35. Shortly afterwards another man was robbed and the culprit again escaped...
...time it appeared that John Shea had failed on his biggest case. But one day he noticed a graduate student walking out of the library with a bulging briefcase. Shea stopped the student, examined the briefcase, and found it stuffed with unchecked books. The University police took the culprit into custody...
...culprit; nor blows...