Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night the town crowned a queen, pretty Bernarda Morales, daughter of a warehouse watchman, and danced until dawn. For still a third day and night, the fiesta went on. Then, exhausted, Tehuantepec went to bed. Back of the bougain-villea-twined wall, a guitar plunked and a lazy voice rose...
Young & Silly. They also fell in with a 24-year-old petty criminal named Albrecht Sticht, who persuaded them to rob a service station. But a night watchman foiled the gang and grabbed one of the boys as they tried to get away. In a fiery rage. Werner decided to kill Sticht. "It's hard to say exactly why," mused Hugo last week. "We were young and silly then. Sticht had joined our gang later and we didn't trust him." At Werner's orders, Sticht was lured to a lonely house and shot in the back...
...police chief, who is 50 years old, worked at the College during the '30's is a watchman-policeman position, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
From then on, Jim made the papers now & again as a night watchman, an able-bodied seaman, movie extra, lecturer, bouncer. He had a heart attack in 1943, another in 1952. In 1951 he turned up as a charity patient in a Philadelphia hospital for an operation on a lip cancer. Pro baseball and other groups raised a little money to get Jim back on his feet. Last week, in his auto trailer outside Los Angeles, the Old Indian, 64, had his last heart attack...
Toohy, the new acting chief, worked at the College during the '30's in a watchman-policeman position and was promoted to Lieutenant rank in 1951. He is 50 years...