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...headed confidently for his last exam, armed with some of his own merchandise. The college bounced the student peddlers and fired the watchman, but by the time the bootlegging was discovered, it was too late to substitute exams. Satisfied Wynne & Reeves customers-prospective teachers all-got off scot free, and presumably won straight...
...losses of better than $800,000 as victims of one of the niftiest and most labyrinthine swindles since Boston's dapper Charles Ponzi was in his prime. The man credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch that only this spring he was interviewed by Mike Wallace as a wonder boy of finance, the proprietor of a budding empire worth, he claimed, something like $10 million. To Tough-Guy Wallace, Belle explained: "If you claw your...
...down on top of him for protection against the other two men. He reached into his pocket, pulled out his knife, then reached clear around the fellow's neck-and whoosh-cut his head off, so it was hanging only by a strip of skin." Uncle Bob went scot free when a jury found he had knifed in self-defense...
...honorary Doctorates of Civil Laws at the university's centuries-old Encaenia-the first time opposing party heads have ever been jointly honored there. In the Sheldonian Theater, a Public Orator read out the traditionally glowing, donnishly funny praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats...
Leeches & Tigers. This despairing India is not the only one seen by Author Alexander Campbell, a 45-year-old Scot who did an 18-month correspondent's hitch in India and Pakistan for TIME (and now covers Japan). But it dominates a highly personalized book that makes bitterly clear how far Indian intentions outrun Indian performance, how even the monuments and pastimes of the imperial past are decayed in the ineffectual present. The Taj Mahal is here, naturally by moonlight-but so are the leechlike guides, making the night hideous as they clamorously offer to show visitors around...