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...Senses Trap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crook Bilks Book Office Out of $150 | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

...last three suspects in the $50,000 Coop stickup eluded a carefully set police trap yesterday morning, speeding away from his North Cambridge home and outdistancing squad cars despite road blocks in a dozen nearby communities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Stalk Coop Robbery Suspect | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

Local police investigators yesterday predicted quick and complete solution of the $50,000 Coop robbery with possible discovery of the entire loot, after State, Boston, and Cambridge forces staged a well-laid trap at a Carver Street, South End, hotel which resulted in the capture of a second suspect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Catch New Coop Suspect in East Boston Trap | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

...drink to him, and he thanks them kindly for it. Jimmy hopes to keep right on playing "as long as they want me." He doesn't mind what he has missed. "I'm doin' fine," says he in his slow, lazy way. "At the old bear trap they used to give me fifty a week for playin'. In 30 years I come ahead 37 bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Long As They Want Me | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

According to Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tombstones & Wolf Traps | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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