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...grey-haired Harvard law professor asked his class: "Does anyone have a $5 bill?" When a student waved one aloft, Professor William Lloyd Prosser beckoned him down front, transferred the money with a flourish to his own wallet. Then he folded his hands across his belly and smiled broadly at Second-Year Student William Poindexter. The class snickered. Poindexter blushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case of the $5 Bill | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Environment. In Long Beach, Calif., Milo E. Murphy visited a chum in the city jail, where somebody got his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...concert at the Harvard Club conclave in Philadelphia the second week in May is another tentative on the spring schedule. Thinness of the band's wallet would probably put round-trip transportation of instruments and players largely on the personal resources of the members, unless the alumni kick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Seek Money to Support Trips to Princeton, Army Contests | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door-slamming before an endless chain of charity canvassers; it seems only just that everyone should have a share in making this relief a reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund Without Friends | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

Small World. In Milan, Italy, Pickpocket Paulo Gaudenzi got off a streetcar after stealing a wallet, took one quick look at his loot, chased the car, jumped on, thrashed his victim. In the wallet : a photo of Paulo's wife, inscribed: "To the world's most thrilling lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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