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Honesty's Reward. In St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Policeman Albert Lamy turned himself in for reckless driving, told the court he had taken his eyes off the road and driven through a garden fence, was fined...
...successful fund-raiser in New York's Westchester County reckoned that he and his family would realize $75,000 this year for operating half a dozen smalltime charities. Another admitted he had posed as a priest and a policeman in telephone soliciting. In The Bronx, six "nuns" in rented habits and their self-styled "bishop" were arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns on behalf of themselves. A commonplace practice is to inundate the mails with cheap ballpoint pens (the D.A.V. mailed 32 million in one year), punch cards, nail files, copies of the Lord...
...fifth ballot Laniel had actually lost strength, but came back strong on the sixth and seventh. On the eighth, grimly determined to stick it out to the end, he was only 22 votes short of victory. Outside the brightly lighted palace, a policeman jerked his head toward it and grated: "That ends it-you'll never again catch me putting my vote in a ballot box." The newspaper Le Monde complained: "Whoever is elected will be badly elected...
Mary Maloney was a tender, loving wife, but when her policeman husband tried to leave her, she crushed his skull with the nearest thing at hand: a leg of lamb fresh from the freezer. Without quite knowing it, Mary had committed a perfect crime. Before the commiserating police have finished their investigation at the Widow Maloney's house, the murder weapon has been cooked and eaten...
After a traffic accident, a doctor can often do more good than a policeman. Last week, at its annual clinical sessions, the A.M.A. took up a relatively new idea: that by warning patients, doctors may be as important in preventing traffic accidents and in reducing the severity of injuries in the accidents as they are later in patching up battered victims. Of the 90 scientific exhibits in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium, none attracted more attention from the 2,500 visiting physicians than a group of six booths dealing with highway safety...