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...Home & Abroad. In Providence, R.I., Harold Fitzpatrick, after a barroom celebration, explained how he happened to throw bricks through 16 panes of glass in a downtown business building: "I thought I was in Woonsocket...
Compensation. In Woonsocket, R.I., the judge dismissed charges that Bernard Halacy, 22-year-old veteran, had stolen a city street-sweeping vehicle, when Halacy explained that he had always wanted to drive a tank in the Army, but never had the chance...
...clergymen-Dr. Howard W. Ferrin, president of the fundamentalist Providence (R.I.) Bible Institute, and Brother Bartholomew, representing the Order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, in Woonsocket-were bidding for Edgewood Junior College on the palatial Frederick Peck estate in Barrington, R.I. That morning Dr. Ferrin had offered $250,000; Brother Bartholomew had topped it with $300,000. The judge had ordered that sealed bids be presented that afternoon. They were, and an astonished clerk read them out: for the Brothers, $331,000; for the institute...
...Washed Up. In Providence, R.L, Judge Charles A. Walsh awarded Mrs. Beatrice M. Lussier exclusive use of the family cottage in Woonsocket, R.I. until her countersuit for divorce could be heard, provided only that the husband "may return to the above-stated residence one day each week for the purpose of taking a bath...
Miss Virginia D. Mussi of Woonsocket, R.I. sat down and wrote a letter to the Literary Guild...