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...have discovered the original ransom note, but it was not opened until the chief and deputy chief of police arrived from Hopewell, three and a half miles away, summoned at once by the excited parents. By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying "token"--a simple affair used often by criminals the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services. Hundreds of newsmen discussed it though they did not publish...
...appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more than 30 bizarre notes in the personal columns of newspapers directed to the parties whom he believed held the child...
...We’re trying to clean some things up,” Stone said. “Boe does a good job. I felt, bad but by the same token it’s not about the shutout, it’s about...
Advocating that FiCom use such discretion between truly inclusive student group coalitions and token ones presents FiCom’s members with a delicate and potentially difficult task. When FiCom believes that an event will bring benefit to the community, it should not deny funding simply because one co-sponsor of the group prohibits members of the opposite sex from joining. But it should not fund such an event when one such group is clearly the lead organizer, and it should not smash open the piggy bank to fund Faculty Club extravagance simply because an organization declined to use reasonable...
...want to go with a group of people, like Destiny’s Child…I’d be their fourth member. We’d have coordinated outfits… I [wouldn’t mind]…being the token white girl…I really think I’d bring something special to the group...