Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Podola case began last July 13, when Podola, 30, allegedly shot and killed a London cop who was trying to question him about a shakedown charge. Cornered three days later in his shabby South Kensington room, Podola was brought out to a police car looking considerably the worse for wear. Two policemen were half dragging him by the arms, and a third walked just ahead as if to keep him from pitching forward. His head was covered with a sack...
...schools. Oakland has the plant and the men for a good start. Most of the sweeping 2,000-acre campus was given to M.S.U. two years ago by the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. Value of the land and the 125-room Wilson mansion: about $15 million. When the Wilsons added another $2,000,000 to the gift, astute M.S.U. President John Hannah appointed Vice President Durward B. Varner, 42, as chancellor and gave him the job of turning Oakland into a dream college. Varner recruited 25 of the nation...
...ensconced in a gold-and-white Hollywood living room surrounded by nude portraits and nude statues of herself, complacent Mae ends her autobiography with a scatter of advice for her sisters. She recommends that they find a man of 40 (by then "he has matured and ripened") with plenty of money ("in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone"), who is not too expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula...
...they got out, were questions that no one could answer. But gallery officials were sure that the robbers had carefully cased the joint, since not one alarm in an intricate security system had been sounded. Most plausible theory: the thieves sauntered into the gallery before closing, dodged from room to room while Pinkerton guards made their final rounds before closing...
Final score: Geneva 35, Coast Guard 0. Coach Graham tried to take the debacle in stride; come what may, he is planning to spend the next 20 years at the academy, and the academy is planning to have him. "I'm not worried," said Graham in the dressing room after the game. "Did I seem worried? I wasn't a bit nervous...