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...Shear Luck. In Atwater, Calif., Bill Blasingame failed to stop his truck in time at a railway crossing, sat helplessly while a passenger train clipped off the front end up to the windshield; stepped out on wobbly legs...
...London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...
...thus refusing to approve a House of Commons bill to abolish capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), the House of Lords last week flung the first direct challenge in the face of Britain's elected representatives since 1949-when the bill in question was one designed to shear the lords themselves of a large portion of their legislative power...
...Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned to the farm, paid up $400 worth of bills, tucked away the remaining loot between the walls of a grain bin. Two days later he went to a neighbor's farm to help shear sheep, returned to find police waiting. Said he sadly: "Bank robbing just isn't my line...
Coach Harry Sacks has an evenly-balanced squad and chooses his starters from a group of six men: Ed Sussenguth, Pete Briggs, Al Botter, Dave Sommer, Harley Shear, and Don Davidoff...