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...hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of his driveway, bounced off both his gateposts, headed off without headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back to his car. At first he wanted to take the wheel, but soon meekly subsided with, "Home, James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Gracious Gesture | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...prowl for wine, men and song, the three girls finally snag their sailors. Esther glides gracefully through several swimming numbers, and there are guest appearances by Billy Eckstine, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds. But, through soggy direction of a waterlogged script, Skirts Ahoy! comes in at only a low tide of musical entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...symbolic moment; Batista had got past democracy's sentries as well as Camp Columbia's. And he had achieved complete surprise. The Prío government had not the slightest inkling that the Strong Man was on the prowl. The U.S. State Department, which takes an understandable interest in Cuba's affairs, was caught completely unaware. One Cuban, sourly reflecting on events the morning after, gibed: "The town is full of FBI agents trying to find out what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Dictator with the People | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Sometimes, however, Elis, Tigers, Lions, and maybe a few Harvard men, do manage to get to Bronxville. Since students handle their own disciplinary problems, and no faculty members live in the houses, these males often prowl through the dorms seeking dates. On weekends only, men are allowed in girls rooms till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informality, Activity Enliven Campus... | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

...Chancellor Adenauer at Bonn. When the boys noticed that their benefactor, instead of running for a train, was still following them, their suspicions solidified. At the first street corner, they showed their package to a streetcar supervisor standing by. The supervisor turned it over to some policemen in a prowl-car. The cops put in a call to Fireman Karl Reichert, explosives expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Stranger with a Package | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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