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Most of the police's trouble comes from ultra-realistic club initiations and practical jokes. During the War, one club had a students dress up at Lowell House as the enemy. A night watchman recalled the incident. "He was up in the bell tower in a Nazi uniform, giving the salute and shouting around." One of the night watchmen still believes that he was a German spy and is still in prison...
...week its most talked-about course was an informal seminar in applied business administration. Graduate Student David Wynne, 26, got the basic idea when he learned that Jesse Shaw, 22, an old friend from his undergraduate days at the University of Tennessee, had signed on at Peabody as night watchman. Watchman Shaw had a key to the college mailroom, where exams are mimeographed, and shortly the operation had its stock in trade. Student Wynne capitalized the venture by selling an exam and a partnership to Roommate Douglas Reeves, 25, for $20, and they lightheartedly tacked a "Wynne & Reeves, Incorporated" sign...
...bought a bootleg exam. The dean called the district attorney, and investigators raided the apartment, seizing Wynne and the crib sheets. They caught Reeves as he headed confidently for his last exam, armed with some of his own merchandise. The college bounced the student peddlers and fired the watchman, but by the time the bootlegging was discovered, it was too late to substitute exams. Satisfied Wynne & Reeves customers-prospective teachers all-got off scot free, and presumably won straight...
...they come in his district investigating civil rights cases. But rare was the Southerner who did not shiver at the new high stakes in next week's runoff. "The election of John Patterson will be interpreted by the Klan as a major victory," warned Greensboro Watchman Editor Hamner Cobbs, Antiviolence White Citizens' Councilman. "In that event, for the next four years the escutcheon of Alabama will proclaim the bedsheet and the burning cross...
Spaces at the Business School lot are being rented at a rapid rate, according to police officials. More than 60 spaces were available last week; only a dozen of these were left yesterday. Almost all of the rented spaces are being used, reports of the night watchman indicate. In addition, streets beyond the edges of the restricted area have shown an increasing number of cars. These streets may eventually be included in the ban, officials said on Thursday...