Word: snooperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although snooperman's contact with a company is usually too short for him to solve its problems, many companies have benefited by his visits. Once a factory worker was explaining the workings of his machine to the researcher, and became so enthusiastic about it that his production rate jumped 50 percent for the next six months...
...wave of frustration swept Lowell House after the Spring Formal Friday night resulting in the greatest library job since Snooperman ran rampant last spring. Not until night watchman Bill Graney received an anonymous phone call last evening was the picture of President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, ordinarily over the fireplace, found in the closet of an unnamed tutor...
Depositing his loot in a barrel in an empty storage room on the top floor of F entry at about 2 o'clock in the morning, with a crash which did not arouse the suspicions of night-owl thesis workers, this year's version of Snooperman pounded down the stairs before chase could be given...
...Deacons' Testament, which will be on the newsstands on June 5,is expected to sell like 5c cigars when people learn that it uncovers the true story behind Snooperman, the mysterious genius who has reversed more than 100,000 books during his brilliant career. The Testament has all the dope--pictures of Snooperman in the act, a full story of how libraries hermetically sealed were broken into, and an editorial entitle. "What are we going to do about it?" Dick Lane, the editor, with a loyal staff of underlings, has seen to it that the Testament has complete coverage...
...Harvard students coined a word-"Snooperman"-for the mysterious person who turned books around on their shelves, thus hiding their titles (TIME, Jan. 27), but he was never identified. In February, 10,000 books were turned on the shelves of Boylston Library. After that, perpetration of the prank at Harvard dwindled and stopped, and Harvardmen, with final examinations in the offing, are doing their best to forget. Three weeks ago, however, a Snooperman turned some 24,000 books on the shelves of Seattle College Library in Seattle...