Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College car owners are in for a mixed blessing if a bill filed yesterday to permit the issue of 30-day overnight street parking licenses gets by the City Council, Councilman Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, warned last night...
...another leathery-necked U.S. forest ranger, living quietly with his schoolteacher wife ("Most rangers marry schoolteachers, doggoned if I know why") on the edge of California's Death Valley. Last week, Stan Jones was cruising around Hollywood in a 1949 car, with reporters and photographers on his tail. Overnight, a little tune that he had cooked up around the campfire, called Riders in the Sky, had put him in the spotlight...
There are more than fifty public garages in Cambridge. There are also a lot of streets. To the garage men these streets could be annoying competition for the overnight parking trade but for one pleasantly coincidental fact; the City forbids parking on them...
...Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty lockerroom-the camera turns up an arresting assortment of local plug-uglies. Some of the character sketches are deftly sardonic; others-notably of ringside sadists...
...overnight last week, all this evidence as to the mind, character, instincts and aspirations of Richard H. Crowe lost its validity, and he became a stranger to all who knew him best. The National City discovered that $883,660-the largest sum ever stolen from a Manhattan bank-was missing from a vault at the branch bank...