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After two years, the two stevedores and their families were fed up. Meager public grants barely fed their wives and children (Lefty, 37, has four and The Rabbit, 39, has five). Lefty lost 22 Ibs. from worry and confinement. The two witnesses petitioned Judge Samuel Leibowitz to let them go home. Last week Leibowitz agreed-on remarkable conditions that throw more light on law enforcement in Brooklyn. Lefty and The Rabbit must never go near the waterfront, Judge Leibowitz ruled, and furthermore, they must live with police guards, who are to follow .them, even inside their homes, from living room...
...retirement. A sprightly, auburn-haired Ph.D. (University of Southern California), she began teaching in 1911, for 28 years served as principal of the Lincoln High School in Los Angeles. But in spite of all that time in service, her retirement pay in 1944 turned out to be a meager $60 a month. Though she had some money of her own, Ethel Andrus began to wonder how the rest of the nation's 140,000 retired teachers were able to make...
...speech contained a major surprise. Coolly blaming Argentina's meager development of its oil resources on the conservation policies of his opposition when it held power, Nationalist Perón announced that he was going to let foreigners "extract oil and Deliver it to us." When the producer gets the oil out, Perón VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TEISAIRE Also a vote from Eva Perón. explained, "I will come and say 'Hey! Hold on, boy. Now it's mine!' He will say it cost him money . . . Then I will pay him what...
King of Hearts (by Jean Kerr & Eleanor Brooke) sends up a shower of witty sparks over a rather flat and meager landscape. A satiric farce, it concerns a megalomaniac cartoonist (Donald Cook) who regards his comic strips as profounder than the Wise Books of the East, and himself as a sort of Einstein with sex appeal. He is exhibited in varied but always-voluble relation to an assistant (Jackie Cooper), an interviewer, a syndicate chief (David Lewis), a small boy he adopts (Rex Thompson) and a fiancée (Cloris Leachman) whose romantic eyes are opened by, among other things...
Following him in the visitors' meager scoring totals were Rollin Perry with nine, Bill Dennis with eight, and Harry Sacks with seven...