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Progressive. In Stephenson, Mich., Michael Martin gave up his position as a member of the board of education to become janitor and bus driver for the elementary school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...ragtag stable of fighters, gives them handouts and a chance to show what they can do. His payroll bulges with ex-pugs. One of his engineers is a former light heavyweight. A once promising middleweight serves as an office manager. A prelim fighter is carried as a janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Smitty | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Detention. In Newbury, Vt., when a school janitor was indicted for first-degree murder, the school board decided to let him stay on the job, but only after school hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...square hole, and a free-form dachshund. On the other side, Tati ranges the proponents of the casual life: Hulot himself, an awesomely inefficient employee of the department of sanitation, a big fat slob who sells vegetables from the back of a prehistoric delivery truck, a sneaky old female janitor and her moronic daughter, several sinister schoolboys, several drunks, an overstimulated canary and any number of mangy mutts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Parkman never returned. For three days Webster remained behind bolted doors in his laboratory, with his furnace and two stoves going full blast, and the water running contin- uously. He left word that he was "performing experiments." By the following Wednesday the janitor had become suspicious, and attacked the brick vault in the basement with a chisel. By Friday, one week after Parkman's disappearance, the janitor had opened a hole large enough to introduce light. A human thigh and pelvis were revealed. Other parts of Parkman's dissected body were found in a blood-bath around the room. Webster...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crime: A Nazi at Lowell, Spy Club, 1766 Rebellion, | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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