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...price" to which Borgatti referred in connection with the use of Hemenway Gymnasium consists of a $6 fee to pay for a janitor-watchman to open and close the building...

Author: By Charles W. Balley nd, | Title: Records Acquit Watson Of Accusations by Band | 4/14/1948 | See Source »

Officials informed the Council that the new parking lot would be ready January 1, complete with watchman and snow-removal equipment, but without University responsibility for damage or theft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking Plan Approved; Council Donates Funds | 12/2/1947 | See Source »

...Francisco, two gunmen, loaded with $5,230 they had just lifted from a department-store watchman, obligingly held open a door on their way out for four store employees, who had been working late. "Aren't you new here?" asked one of the employees. "Yes," said one,of the robbers. "What's your name?" "Morgenthau." "Oh, that's a good name. You must have lots of money." "I have, replied the thug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Mulvihill, who is a University night watchman himself, always keeps H.U.E.R.A.'s Massachusetts Avenue office open to workers with grievances, but believes that most of them are based on employee misinformation. "I just show them the contract," he says, "and they see that the University has done nothing wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employees Union Ends Ten Tough Years of Battle for Higher Wages | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

Bombois drifted to Paris, married, and found work as a printer's helper. His brother-in-law, who was a watchman at the Louvre, kept urging him to drop over and have a look at the paintings. That was one match he didn't lose deliberately. "Finally I did," says Bombois, "but those guys were too big for me. I've never gone back there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man with a Big Hat | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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