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...Shoes & a Boot. One night, Morrison recalls, the objective was a shoe store. "Since the 40th District [the cops' own] was guarding it, it was very easy for all the boys to help themselves . . . We all started loading tons of these shoes. We filled up 30 or 40 big cartons with shoes. We were filling the squad car up and the trunk with shoes, all different sizes, for all their relatives and themselves. They're all wearing these shoes-it says Crawford Shoes on them. Everybody got four or five pair in their home. The rest of them...
...city's street superintendent when his handling of a 1947 flood turned him into a local hero and set him up for election ao mayor in 1949. Consistently underestimated by the dominant G.O.P. , even after he beat Incumbent Governor Leo Hoegh in 1956, he exploited his old-shoe manner to win easy re-election in 1958, began to look like a political Music Man to rebrassed Democrats and out-of-tune Republicans...
...make the entire answer to the railroads' problems. The very nature of the commuter business-running at a peak for only four hours daily-means that roads must keep expensive equipment and labor idle for most of the day. "You couldn't profitably run a shoe factory or a bean cannery on such a schedule." says the Long Island's president, Thomas Goodfellow...
...Police Constable Reginald Oakes was crawling in total darkness along a 12-ft. plank that linked two window ledges in London's bombed-out Alexandra Hotel. At one window, trapped in the ruin of their bedroom, were a shoe manufacturer named Davies, his wife and two panicky daughters. At the other, Constable John McKenning did his best to hold the plank steady; a concrete courtyard yawned 45 ft. below...
...Seesaw, Anne was only too anxious to try. She was going East for a sister's wedding anyway; she read the play and decided that she would impress Coe, not by acting, but by being Gittel. "I made sure he found me with one shoe off, scratching my foot," she recalls. "And when I got inside his office, the first thing I said was, 'Where's the John?' It was just the sort of thing Gittel would have said. I didn't have to go, really, but I went. He asked me to come back...