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Like any prudent Congressman quick to heed even the silliest requests from a constituent, Brooklyn Democrat John J. Rooney, 53, asked the Library of Congress to ransack its stacks and files for the words to an oldtime ditty entitled The Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find...
...come. The three networks are pouring more than $75 million into the next few months. The deluge will include some memorable repeats from other seasons: there will be, for example, another Peter Pan with the matchless Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard. But there will also be new productions that ransack libraries, scoop in ballerinas, acrobats, actors, film and ideas from just about everywhere. Most favorites will be back. For the first time, the major Hollywood studios will be onstage or on cathode, shuffling for attention: after years of sulking, the movies have decided to embrace TV. The hug will approach...
Professional Handicap. In New London, Conn., Alfred Mills, 26, broke into a bottling plant, tripped the burglar alarm, continued to ransack the premises, later explained to police who caught him: "I'm hard of hearing...
...wild Chiri ("Different Wisdom") mountains of southwest Korea, Red guerrilla bands still maraud and plunder, sweeping down from their lairs to ransack villages and loot the creaky buses that bounce along the region's rutted roads. There are at least 3,000 guerrillas, and the villagers on whom they prey call them San Sonnim ("Mountain Guests"). Until last week many of them were devoted henchmen of Lee-Hyun Sang, a plump, mustached Marxist...
...Sheriff Perry found that Prisoners Hamelin and Hamblin were old hands at picking the old, rotary-type locks used in Burlington's jail. Each night after lockup, the two men would unlock their cells, drop down through an old manhole to the basement, poke through the brick wall, ransack deserted stores and return to the jailhouse. Why didn't they just keep right on going to freedom? Reasoned Sheriff Perry for his prisoners: why break up a good thing when you have a perfect alibi...