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Decoy. In Chicago, after an undercover man telephoned police headquarters to report that 40 men were playing poker and blackjack in a poolroom-saloon, Police Lieutenant George Mankowski raided the place with a flying squad, forgot to guard the rear exit, succeeded in nabbing only the undercover...
...presented our cards, we were ushered individually to benches in the back of the room. The front rows were already full of women, a great phalanx of middle-aged housewives who outnumbered the men by at least two to one. Being led past them to a seat in the rear of the room gave one a feeling of smallness, such as a drone must experience now and then...
...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...located in the rear of Andover Hall, will cost an estimated eight to ten thousand dollars. Approximately a half mile from the Houses, it will have space for about 130 cars, officials said...
...that President C. D. Jackson, after twelve months of transforming the committee's anti-Communist fight from blueprint into action, resigned to return to his job as publisher of FORTUNE from which he was on leave. His successor: Harold ("Min") Miller, 49, World War II's youngest rear admiral and onetime Navy press chief. Annapolisman Miller, who retired from the Navy in 1946 and became head of public relations for T.W.A., has been information director of the American Petroleum Institute for the past 3½ years. He will be on leave from A.P.I, to take the committee presidency...