Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Others See. In best holdup style, Clerk Joseph Braunspiegel had just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
...women in the armed forces and the 720,000 in war plants at war's end, almost all have found civilian jobs. He added: "I cannot understand by what process of reasoning [some doubters] arrive at their conclusion that there will be a . . . minor depression next year. . . . With . . . so many people in possession of ready money when the goods are available, I cannot see anything ahead but a long period of employment...
King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...
...Minor clubs are also active, with the Bridge Club holding a tournament open to any member of the College. Thus far more than fifty duos have signed up for the competition for a cash prize. The Chess Club and the Stamp Club are still in a process of formation, while the Photography Club is converting a room in the Union into a dark-room...
Desk Sergeant Finnegan on duty at the Cambridge Police station last night corroborated this impression for all of the city, after consultation with his blotter showed a few minor larcenies. Boston police, however, listed a $2000 jewelry and clothing theft from a Sarah Lawrence Crimson fan, Miss Margaret Taylor...