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...Taiwanese sporting mirror-sunglasses who are trying to obtain pirated recordings of the famous singer. (For "artistic reasons," Hawkins has always refused to make records). And when a prostitute escaping from the "Caribbean Connection" (which seems to have something to do with white slavery and heroine) hides in Jules' knapsack a recorded confession revealing the identity of the gang's boss, he's in for a lot of unexpected late-night callers...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Scenes of Paris | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

Morse said, however, that the police merely followed the lead of a witness who had seen a Black man "apparently with cook's regalia on. "He said that the student witness, an employee at the gameroom, had voluntarily opened his own knapsack for police search and that the police followed up all other leads...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Cook Claims Race Bias in Investigation | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

...female undergraduate walking on shepherd St. near Mass. Ave was assaulted by a white male in his early twenties wearing a red varsity type jacket. The man said, "You are a very pretty lady," then made a "very negative, nasty comment." He reached out to grab the student's knapsack and look hold of her arm. The student then fled forward Walker St. Police Blotter appears every Friday...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/26/1982 | See Source »

Steve Oney is not a college student. His tweed jacket, Knapsack, pullover sweater and predilection for Bartley burgers (he prefers the "Ronnie Reagan burger," two jellybeans included) may make him look like one; he does attend some half-dozen classes and will continue to do so for the rest of the year. But Steve Oney is a 1981-82 Nieman fellow, a self-styled "new journalist," and his mission at Harvard this year is not to pave the way toward professional school but to take courses "that I don't know anything about." There's one other thing: he wants...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Covering the National Drama | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

...young ex-serviceman at the door of Edward Eliçofon's Brooklyn home had a knapsack full of paintings for sale. They had been bought at a flea market in Germany, the young man said. Eliçofon, a lawyer and passionate collector, was intrigued. He did not know, on that afternoon in 1946, that what the man offered was a collector's dream-and ultimately, a $10 million disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furor over Two Long-Lost D | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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