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Frank Sinatra still had no cause for worry. A truck driver bound for Hoboken, N.J. had to fight off an attacking party of hijackers before he could deliver his highly prized cargo: Sinatra recordings, $30,000 worth...
More than just a clearing house for job offers and job applicants, the Student Placement Office, according to Teele, will study the whole problem of how best to place men. It will examine from time to time the intelligence and vocational tests developed at Stevens Institute, in Hoboken, and elsewhere, though as yet there is no planned program to use such tests. Whether those tests will be important is hard to say, said Teele; results may be deceptive in that men of high intelligence may lack the drive and personality necessary for some types of work...
...defended Praga, only one in 20 was taken alive. The rest of the defenders were killed last week when the First White Russian Army and elements of Lieut. General Zigmund Berling's First Polish Army stormed the town-which bears the same geographic relation to Warsaw as Hoboken does to Manhattan...
Died. Gustave Meyer, 68, self-styled "American scientific astrologer - counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor...
...night of Dday, off the coast of France, busily engaged landing craft saw a vessel resembling a Hoboken ferry puffing by, read the letters LCK (Landing Craft, Kitchen) on its sides. Blinkers promptly opened up, signaling for "Double malted and ham-on-rye, forget the mustard...