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Preoccupation. In Bath, England, Joane Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Yardling lineup in the different weight classes is as follows: Bob Sanford 121-1b., Fred Greenhalge 128-1b., Al Page 136-1b., Tom Cochran 145-1b., Gus Hemenway 155-1b., Leslie Rittner 165-1b., Charlie Gudaitis 175-1b., and Frank French heavyweight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN MATMEN WILL ENCOUNTER TECH TODAY | 12/13/1941 | See Source »

...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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