Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westminster Abbey is a ghostly place by night. Timbers creak and pigeons and sparrows make fluttering noises high in the clerestory as the watchman makes his rounds...
...Days to Pusan. Very few Americans got to Korea because they wanted to fight. PRIVATE STANLEY POPKO, of Bayonne, N J., for instance, was in Korea because he had wanted an education. His father was a night watchman for Standard Oil of New Jersey; there was never any money to spare in the family. After Stan graduated from Bayonne Technical High School last year, he looked around for a job that would permit him to go on to night school, finally decided to let Uncle Sam take care of his further education. First he tried the Navy...
Audition. In Philadelphia, investigating complaints that someone was screaming in the Shubert Theater at 4 a.m., cops found Night Watchman Hector Williams, 67, singing "My object all sublime" from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado to 1,900 empty seats...
...blaze, discovered shortly after 1:30 a.m. by night watchman Michael J. Lyons, was confined entirely to the laundry room on the ground floor. Most of the loss was to articles of clothing and towels, some of which were scheduled to be used after today's game with Dartmouth...
Fifteen of the rioters made the only successful invasion of the Radcliffe dorms when they found the door of Bertram Hall open. A night watchman threw the intruders out of the dormitory...