Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unredeemed. In Fresno, Calif., a gunman tried to rob Sam's Fairway Grocery wearing a sheet of trading stamps over his face with stamps ripped out to make eye holes...
Losses & Jets. Any settlement may take some time, since T.W.A., owned 78.2% by California's fabulous Howard Hughes, is in the worst financial shape of any major U.S. airline. On last year's balance sheet, the accountants listed a net loss of $1,600,000, despite a 9.7% jump in revenues to a record $263.7 million. For the first nine months this year, the loss is $1,800,000, although other major lines are well in the black. More important, T.W.A. has borrowed so heavily from banks and insurance companies that it has rigid restrictions...
What might have been the first "expose" sheet and was definitely the first college periodical, "The Telltale," predated the Philomusarian by seven years. The eleventh issue declares that the writer has "found out several Clubs in College," including "The Mock Club" founded in 1769 composed of "Persons Rawbon'd humpback'd and Monophthalmic." The publication was short-lived, however, and the editors organized themselves into the Spy Club, whose members discussed such questions as "Whether there be any Standard of Truth," and "Whether it be Fornication to lye with ones Sweetheart before marriage...
Cars with out-of-state registrations pose a special problem for the department, the chief said. The only practical way Cambridge can deal with parking violators whose cars are not registered in Massachusetts is to list the cars on a "towing sheet" after recurrent infractions. Illegally parked cars listed on this list are automatically impounded, Brennan stated...
...Congressional nominee John L. Saltonstall Jr. '38, was posted yesterday in University dining halls and entries by members of the Harvard Eisenhower Republican Club. The bill drew severe criticism last night from Harvard Young Democratic Club president Fred M. Leventhal '60, who denounced it as a "vicious McCarthyistic slander-sheet...