Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen fun-loving freshmen staged an ingenious prank last night. It went something like this: these here humorous people snuck into the Union (after it was closed and locked for the night!) and unscrewed a tremendous, ugly cannon barrel from its base, somewhere in the basement of that building. Then, after tremendous exertions, they lugged it upstairs and (can you believe it?) propped it up diagonally in the door to the dining room. Well, everyone was tremendously amused, you may be assured. They all laughed immoderately...
...section men expressed the opinion that the whole job was some kind of prank. "No one would possibly want the chemicals for anything," one said...
Morganthan, a visiting professor in Government here in 1960-61, reiterated that the successof the demonstration hinged in the caliber of the partcipants. "They must present their case seriously," he warned, "or people in Washington will dismiss it as an adolescent prank...
Historical Prank? Why did he go to so much trouble? The Goya was too well known to be sold. It was not insured (no national treasures are), and Her Majesty's government could hardly be expected to pay ransom-the most logical motive for most of the other robberies. At week's end, Scotland Yard was leaning to the theory that it was the work of some ingenious prankster with a highly dramatic sense of history. After all, the theft took place just 50 years to the day after a superpatriotic Italian workman named Vincenzo Perugia repatriated...
Died. Philip Benjamin Perlman, 70, Maryland lawyer, newspaperman (onetime Baltimore Evening Sun city editor and prank-playing crony of H. L. Mencken) and Democratic politician, who from 1947 to 1952 as workhorse Solicitor General of the U.S. personally won an unprecedented 49 cases before the Supreme Court but lost his most famous one, defense of President Truman's 1952 seizure of the steel industry; of heart disease; in Washington. An energetic fighter for civil rights. Perlman was co-chairman of the Platform Committee at last month's Democratic Convention...