Word: shea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chronic occupational malady. One reporter so afflicted is Ramelle C. MaCoy, who was sending his dispatches to TIME from Guatemala a year ago, from Korea six months later, and who will be filing his stories from Buenos Aires in a week or two. He will take over from Frank Shea, who returns to the U.S. this month after an eventful year in the Argentine capital...
...getting so that anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," said James Shea, a big Dallas electric-appliance distributor. Shea, like many another U.S. appliance jobber, is finding that more & more of his business is coming from "discount houses" which offer everything from washing machines, refrigerators and TV sets, down to fountain pens, at 20% to 30% below list price...
...Shea and the University Police worked on the case several weeks, and for a time it appeared that John Shea had failed on his biggest case. But one day he noticed a graduate student walking out of the library with a bulging briefcase. Shea stopped the student, examined the briefcase, and found it stuffed with unchecked books. The University police took the culprit into custody...
...director told me to go to this student's home in Dedham and see if he had any more," Shea recalls. "I found that he had 1800 books, most of them stuffed into dirty, old barrels and wastebaskets. Most of them were so mutilated that they were valueless. The student was absolutely crazy and got two and a half years at hard labor...
...What this guy did," Shea states," would be to go to students studying in Widener and ask them what course they were taking. He would then borrow all the books for that course in the library. Then no one could get any to study. After this incident, I had plates put in all books that were returned, saying 'The man who stole this book from the library is now serving a sentence of two and a half years at hard labor...