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...expects much furor love petit larceny these days when the top men in the field are hitting Brinks for millions, but indifference is downright impolite. If the small-timer does not rate headlines, he at least deserves the dignity of arrest. "Attention must be paid to these men of little talent, who nonetheless are doing their best...
Sprinkler Sentinel. An automatic timer which will turn off lawn sprinklers after any period from one to 60 minutes has been put on the market by Automatic Controls Corp. of Ann Arbor, Mich. Price...
...might have had the nomination, but Congressman Roosevelt is saying himself for the 1954 campaign for governor. The bosses pondered over Robert Wagner Jr., borough president of Manhattan, who had little to recommend him but the name of his crusading, pro-labor father. Carmine De Sapio, a colorless small-timer who runs what's left of Tammany Hall, was for Wagner, which meant that New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri was automatically against him. In doubt and confusion, the Democrats chose John Cashmore, 57, the borough president of Brooklyn...
...post war crowding that up to 1948 forced undergraduates to live on the top floor of the building at the start of each school year until other housing could be found. "It was like one big happy family, living up there on the basketball court," one old-timer recalls. Freshmen practicing fire escapes down ropes were a disturbing influence at times, but some men actually wanted to keep on living on the balcony when there was room elsewhere, according to Vaughn...
Bill Ashenfelter, A.A.U. cross-country champion, had set the early pace, but he dropped out soon after the mile mark. He turned the pacesetter's role over to his brother Horace Ashenfelter, Wilt's brother FBI man. At the mile-and-a-half mark, Official Timer Greg Rice, holder of the world indoor record, took a look at his watch (6:41.2) and shrugged. "Well," he said, "there goes my record...