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...making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
...Caesar's contemporaries often used even stronger language. In I, Claudius, Author Robert Graves reproduces the mood, if not the exact language of a song Caesar's legions sang returning from Gaul: "Home we bring the bald whoremonger;/Romans, lock your wives away...
Herb Shriner Time (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) brings a latter-day and considerably less-than-life-size Will Rogers to the TV screen. Shriner, a transplanted Hoosier, has most of the master's mannerisms, from the errant lock of hair to the habit of quizzically scratching his ear. And he has some of Rogers' owlish humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
Although no dormitory residents saw the prowler enter, a report from the night watchman disclosed that the back door to the dormitory was open when he made his rounds at 3 a.m. The lock on the door was weak and could be jarred loose even when the catch was on, residents said...
...able to tell exactly how the two men gained entrance. The watchman in charge of off-campus houses reported that when he made his rounds at 3 a.m. the door was open, but girls who live in the house said that the lock on the back door was so insecure that even after the catch was on, manipulation of the handle could spring...