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Moats & Thugs. A windfall came Sooi's way: one of his indignant tenants grumpily moved away. Sooi invited one Jacob Moerland down from The Hague to open a casino in the vacant house, for the benefit of Dutchmen who are not allowed to gamble in their own country. Later, an ambitious Dutchman named Herman Bernhard showed up, opened a competing Benelux Casino complete with free drinks, a parking lot and twelve croupiers. By 1954, five casinos were operating-though not always smoothly. At one point, Bernhard had a moat dug around Moerland's Woodside Club to prevent customers...
...Place to Hide. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., after $10,000 was found in a paper bag in a vacant lot, the money was claimed by Mary Panek, 65, who explained: "I was going away for a few days and didn't want to leave it in the house...
Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment, yesterday suggested some possible lines of expansion which the HSA may pursue, including a summer caretaking agency for local homes which are vacant during the summer, a summer housepainting agency, and a furniture leasing operation...
...Masters' recent request that graduate students be allowed to move into rooms made vacant by the construction of Leverett towers is the logical solution to a somewhat unexpected problem. If contributors to the Program had realized that by the spring of 1959 the College would be wondering what to do with its newly acquired rooming space, they might have been slightly amused at the pleas for more rooms. But what the Masters have actually proposed is a solution to a temporary problem, and it should be considered as such...
With captain Bob Bland as first-string goalie and Phil Doherty in reserve, the Crimson has managed to come up with three shut-outs and five one-goal games. Bland will be a strong candidate for the varsity goalie spot which senior Harry Pratt will leave vacant next year...