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Detectives had been checking on the man for several weeks before a tip came in that he had returned from a hurried out-of-town trip, thus setting the stage for the combined police action. The suspect surrendered in his room without a struggle...
...Chile, trying to save gasoline (and dollar exchange), put police patrols on the roads to hold motorists down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...
After signing up all but two out-of-town members of the 1947 Jayvee squad on a petition supporting Boston, leaders of the informal campaign last night started a new set of petitions moving through the general student body. In an hour and a half Frank Powell '46 had signed up 150 supporters. "We plan to circulate the petitions through the Houses and the Yard all this week," said Powell, a Jayvee guard last fall, "with a goal of a couple of thousand signatures...
...Business. Like most other colleges which have good basketball teams, St. Louis U. has to pay for it. It gives talented out-of-town players board, room and scholarships, plus incidental expenses. But it all comes back in gate receipts, and plenty more besides. College basketball, like college football, is now big business. It is also the No. 1 U.S. sport in attendance figures. Last year, 75 million people paid to see basketball games. Baseball, which considers itself the great American game, was 10,000,000 admissions behind, and football, which draws its big crowds only once a week...
After a dreary series of revivals, summer stock and out-of-town closings, McClintic gave him a role in a 1942 Broadway show, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star. The show soon folded, but the critics had some nice things to say about a new juvenile named Gregory Peck...