Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midnight Sailing. When the two had been missing for three days, Scotland Yard took up the trail together with Britain's M.I.-5 counter-espionage agents. They found that Burgess had booked two tickets for a round-trip excursion steamer to Saint-Malo, Brittany, hired a small sports car for ten days. Headlights blazing, the car flashed through the deserted streets of Southampton just before midnight, screeched to a stop at the dockside. The two men tossed a couple of shillings to the dock attendant, shouted "Buy yourself a drink," and leaped aboard the steamer. "What about...
Former SS Colonel Paul Blobel was the first to go. Shortly after midnight, four husky MPs led him across the floodlit yard of Landsberg Prison. On the gallows platform, a U.S. Army hangman was waiting for him. Blobel (responsible for the killing of 30,000 Jews at Kiev in 1941) got 90 seconds for his last words. Thrusting out his spade-bearded chin, he cried: "I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies...
...freshmen were more interested in other things than what the next class would be doing. On May 1 they held their first Smoker. They listened to speeches, saw a movie entitled "Dog's Life," and were entertained by the "Freshman Irresistables." The Jubilee with its midnight supper took place a few weeks later...
...oration by Ralph Barton Perry '29, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, will open the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercise at 11 a.m. Monday in Sanders Theater. Monday night will find seniors in the Eliot House Courtyard for the Senior Spread for which a formal dance and midnight supper have been planned...
Just before midnight, two policemen walked into Teheran's Park Hotel last week looking for Sefton Delmer, crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure...