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...together in the rear seat of a rapidly moving automobile . . . with two men in that automobile armed to the teeth, this car preceded in front by an automobile carrying two other armed officers of the law and followed by still another car with armed guards and with state highway patrolmen as an escort, did attempt to escape by using a pen-knife...
...every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Dynamic Miss Helen Clay Frick sent for the bomb squad from police headquarters and a special detail of a precinct captain, a sergeant, and twelve patrolmen. Only then were the doors opened and New York's bluest bloods admitted to a museum to which, in the will of its donor, "the entire public shall forever have access subject only to reasonable regulations...
...driving past Massachusetts Institute of Technology's swank No. 6 Club in Cambridge, Mass, one night, many a motorist was startled by a loud thwack on the roof of his car. Finally one driver stopped, found that his car had been dented, notified police. Few minutes later two patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez...
...drove on without stopping, a bystander jotted down the license number, notified police. Few minutes later radios in Queens, Manhattan & Bronx police cars intoned: "Signal 32. Signal 32.* Stop car 1N-72-35 heading for New York, liable to cross Queensboro Bridge any moment." At Queensboro Bridge five patrolmen lay in wait, finally spotted car 1N-72-35 inching toward them in the heavy traffic. Training a repeating rifle on the burly driver, they ordered him out, gulped when they recognized George Herman ("Babe") Ruth...
Prides of Atlantic City, N. J. are its seven-mile boardwalk along the ocean front and the special force of 24 patrolmen whose chief duty it is to see that visiting couples keep their more wayward ideas to the privacy of hotel rooms, that male bathers keep their shirts on. Perhaps even more of a civic monument is Mayor Harry Bacharach, who attracted considerable attention two years ago when he moved his office to a space on an amusement pier between a chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite so that job-seeking visitors must pay 25? apiece...