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...watchmen, he and his henchmen padded about the place in stocking feet, learning which way each door swung, locating the main vaults, honing their strategy. In their exacting research, the gang broke into a burglar-alarm company one night, and carefully studied the Brink's alarm system. Every lock barrel on every door along their route through the Brink's building was removed by the gang during their nightly visits, fitted with keys, and reinstalled in the doors before morning with such skill and skulduggery that nothing was suspected. An awed detective who listened to Specs...
Radio and TV this year are taking over Christmas, lock, stock and carol. The procession of Scrooges began last week with Fredric March on CBS's Shower of Stars, and he was followed by a whole battery of Dickensian skinflints-Alastair Sim, Reginald Owen, Alec Guinness and the late Lionel Barrymore. Christmas drama also resounds with sleigh bells, seasonal cuteness and commercialized brotherhood. A run-through of the titles suggests the content: Christmas 'Til Closing, with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Christmas Story, on San Francisco Beat...
with their entire membership. "We're going in lock, stock and barrel," bristled Vice President James R. (for Riddle) Hoffa, whose growingly visible power within his union suggests an undercover undercutting of Teamster Boss Dave Beck...
...Lord Jeff encounter, which the varsity won on a forfeit. The most positive answer was Pete Morrison's first bout of the year in the unlimited class. Morrison's 245 pounds took only 2.23 of the first period to flatten Tech's Ken Jones under an arm-lock body press...
Meanwhile, police and fire officials have taken intricate security measures to keep the engine--pumper number two--under lock and key. Police cordons were set up around the fire station on Portland St. last night to keep photographers and reporters away. The fire station's personnel barricaded themselves behind locked doors and windows. "Nobody gets in," one fireman said...