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Anti-Prohibitionist (illegal beer and hooch) Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 59, in stir since 1933 for the Chicago snatch of Con Man John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, drew closer to freedom. Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton cut Touhy's 99-year stretch to 72 years, thus making Terrible eligible for springing in August...
Time Remembered is less moonlit than footlighted, and is most rewarding-in fact, is great fun-when it is a stylish theater piece, full of little acting doodads and knickknacks, of interpolated flourishes and roulades: a trio practicing orchid-eating, a wild snatch of Swan Lake, a bit of supper ritual, a quite mad hunting scene. As the flighty duchess, Helen Hayes -if not wholly French-is very often wholly delightful, alternating an actress' skill with a vaudevillian's liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash...
...Rochester, after Charles Chiarenza was awakened by loud pounding on the kitchen door of his ground-floor apartment, sleepily groped for the light, investigated and found no one there, he returned to the bedroom just in time to see-but not to stop-a hand reach through the window, snatch his trousers and wallet...
...businessman was more global-minded than Sosthenes Behn, who created the world web of $760 million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...
...teachers at present severely aggravates this problem. Will Harvard be able to find enough competent teaching fellows to meet the requirements of expansion, and if it can will it be able to keep them? Other colleges even more hard-pressed than Harvard will be only too eager to snatch teaching fellows away to higher positions elsewhere. It may even become difficult, as Bender points out, for Harvard to keep its instructors and assistant professors...