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There were bills to: recondition the vessel Prowler and return it to the Pomperaug Council of Boy Scouts (Bridgeport, Conn.), who had surrendered it for purposes of war; amend the Constitution to let Congress regulate marriage and divorce; issue 3? airmail postcards on "good stiff paper"; and authorize federal funds for fighting cattle grubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Work, No Pay. In Denver, a prowler climbed a pole, jumped to a third-floor window, broke through a screen into an elevator shaft, leaped to a cable, swung over and kicked open a door to a corridor, climbed through, tried to cut a hole in the floor, finally tired of it all and left lootless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...prowler lopped off three cows' tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom, Tom the Piper's Son | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...Homey Touch. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., a tavern-owner reported that a prowler broke into his place three times in three weeks, took nothing, simply rearranged the furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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