Word: pranksterism
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Dillaway had filled out his withdrawal slip and presented it to the woman teller at the savings window. She began to tremble--and for good reason. On the back of the slip an unknown prankster had written, "I have a gun. Give me all your paper money...
Uncommitted Crime. In Albany, teen-agers with transistor radios went from house to house advising residents to turn off appliances. The people of Burlington, Vt., in response to a prankster's plea aired by a local radio station, took 200 flashlights to De Goesbriand Memorial Hospital?where the lights only dimmed momentarily...
...days ago the officials telephoned Kaden and, reminding him of the precarious position of his M.I.T. co-prankster, demanded the return of the medal. Like Jim Thorpe, Ralph Kaden acquiesced...
Exposed as a spy, and the agent of a California Democratic prankster named Richard Tuck, Miss O'Connor was put off the train in Parkersburg, W. Va., only ten hours after boarding. But however simple-minded her mission might have been, campaign newsmen, on a starvation diet of steaks and oratory, jumped at the chance to report it. In front-page stories around the U.S., they gave the Democrats' girl spy a far better ride than she had got on the Goldwater Special...
...supporting cast might be accused of nonsupport. Hume Cronyn's Polonius is devilishly fine, a battered human filing cabinet of platitudes who has achieved diplomatic immunity to everything but the sound of his own voice. And George Rose's First Gravedigger is a roguish, low-comic word prankster. But Alfred Drake's King Claudius is too suavely ingratiating to have killed a brother and seized a crown. He is more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine her at bridge than...