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...Victor was out to wrap up a fast-selling Christmas package (and incidentally promote its 45-r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
After two days in port, the Juneau went on the prowl again. I was aboard when she left the harbor, riding low in the water from the heaviest load of ammunition she had ever carried. As we put off, a 40-man U.S. Marine guard in knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...
...afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...
...their feet. Five shiny new patrol cars are replacing the foot beats in the interests of more efficient coverage of the area. When the plan was up before the City Council, one councilman termed it an "invitation to burglars, rapists, and thieves . . . to come into Cambridge, watch a prowl car go by, and then do their damage." Could...
Vigilant though the prowl squad boys may be, they never get to know Mr. Brophy and his back troubles the way Patrolman O' Malley did. One day they may mistake Mr. Brophy for the hunched-over attacker slinking from the scene of the crime and all hell will break loose. As the Cambridge police chief admits, the personal touch will be lost...