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...little men coming in through the fire door and students who have waked up to find their shades taken down whilst they slept and later replaced in an equally mysterious manner. Once a man in Leverett House walked into his room to find two total strangers sitting on his sofa smoking. Seeing him, they rose and left silently. Another soul woke up to find his bed being moved into the center of the room by two burly strangers. The two them looked briefly out the window and left without a word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Forty-three dollars in a white business envelope turned up on a Briggs Hall sofa yesterday morning but it still didn't close the books on the series of thefts that has milked $133 from Hall residents this term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs hall Thief Returns Pilfered $43 to Residents | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

Harvard men who haven't yet arranged for a bed in New Haven will have a hard time finding one this weekend, unless they can squeeze into sofa space in the Yale colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Haven Hotels Send Up Big Seare for Eli Weekend | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...report of how BOY AGED 15 ACCUSES A MARRIED WOMAN: "The 15-year-old boy said in evidence that he often visited the house and played cards with [a married couple]. One night in the summer of 1948 he found [the wife] alone. She sat near him on the sofa and improperly assaulted him. The boy continued: 'I visited the house again nearly every evening. Several times the things I have described happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mirrors of Life | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...combination living & dining room, glittering with thousands of flecks of gold-colored plastic thread woven in chairs, sofa and carpet, the huge mirror forming the far wall parted; through it, from her hidden boudoir, stepped Viola Loewy, his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, to join him at breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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