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This is certainly true of Boston's Brink's robbers. Far from being a gang of master criminals--as was first supposed--the thieves turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of petty, two-bit bumblers who hung out in Scolley Square, pulling off little jobs and dreaming of the big heist. It seemed poetic justice that these ordinary crooks were the ones to hit the prestigious armored-car company for a million and a half dollars. It was a daring robbery, no one got hurt, and the crooks very nearly got away with...
Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House, said last night that Lowell House is providing rooms for the 20 students who were forced out of their rooms by the fire, until Buildings and Grounds workers can repair the damage...
William H. Bossert, co-master of Lowell House and McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, said yesterday the Masters and Steiner wanted to ensure that the channels of communication between the administration and the students are open before additional boycotts, demonstrations and other protests occur...
Every dog has his day, and with the publication of The Literary Dog by William E. Maloney and J.C. Suarès (Putnam; 126 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper), he also has his book. Decorated with works by Hogarth, Toulouse-Lautrec, Velazquez and other masters, this anthology bristles with canine tales, poems and anecdotes. With more than 100 selections from the likes of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Twain and Thurber, the result is more than mere doggerel. There are, for instance, Odysseus' faithful Argus, who waits 20 years for his master's return, Goldsmith's poor mongrel who dies...
...produced and sold as a popular, commercial art form. Broadsheets celebrating the Kiabuki theater, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, samurai heroes, and witches and demons from Japanese folklore sold like rice cakes in the capital of Edo, now Tokyo. Yet despite their wide appeal, these prints were the work of master craftsmen who painstakingly carved up to a dozen separate blocks to produce one multicolored picture. An inexpensive introduction to the lively imagination and skill of vanished artisans...