Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fabiani still occasionally plays his Stradivarius, moves with ease through his two worlds. On the night of the Tebaldi recital, after presenting the singer with masses of long-stemmed roses, he drove to a local precinct to bail out two fans of Dropkick Rocca who had been jailed for assaulting the referee...
...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...
Over the weekend, students began fashioning black felt armbands with "14-Mars" inscribed on them in chalk, and plans were supposedly laid for a mass surrender to the New Haven police and for a march on a local precinct station. Another student plot hoped to have the entire undergraduate body flush all the toilets at Yale simultaneously in hopes of flooding New Haven streets. However, the Deans probation decree appears to have silenced any such mass action
...months ago by auto-accident injuries, that his 15-year-old son David was declared a juvenile delinquent by Children's Court in Jamaica, L.I., for fighting in a furtive gang rumble. But worse followed. Released in the custody of his mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here's my boy that jumped the track," Roy said. "Whenever...
...young Harvard-educated blueblood who is attempting to toss politics' roistering Dead End Kid, Ald. Mathias "Paddy" Bauler (43d), out of office is going to carry his fight to every precinct in the ward...