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Booster Station. In Harewood, England, finding too much money in a telephone call box, Telephone Company Employee Mary Throup tracked down an elderly lady who admitted that she always put loose change into the box because "the poor telephone girls don't get much money, you know." Chip & Old Block. In Bloomingburg, N.Y., after Francis Van Winkle sold his father's farm machinery for $275 and left home without telling him, he was turned over to the police when he crawled into bed, discovered that his father had sold the house without telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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