Word: callan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Charles Callan, a kindly looking old gentleman with bushy white hair, walked up to the poor box in St. Joseph's Church. Prying it open, he was about to reach in and seize its contents when a blinding light bedazzled him and he ran away...
...next week, Charles Callan again approached the poor box. Reflecting that the frightening flash had been caused by some short circuit, he had returned to complete his interrupted robbery. Yet this time again Charles Callan was disturbed. A policeman took him by the shoulder and hustled him to court. Here Charles Callan was confronted by a snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced...
...known more about his self portrait, Charles Callan would have been proud indeed. Charles Callan was too stupid to understand that the flash of light which should have been his augury was, in point of fact, a photographic flare which his tamperings with the poor box had caused to be ignited at the precise instant in which an automatic camera caught the features of his startled face. The camera trap was the invention of a policeman, one James O'Donnell, who had already seen his device installed in several haunts but had never before had an opportunity of giving...
President D. F. Cameron 2G.B. acted as Chairman for the evening. For the third successive year Professor John Gurney Callan, Professor of Industrial Management, entertained as toastmaster...
Professor J. G. Callan of the Business School, who will be introduced by D. F. Cameron 2G.B., president of the club, will act as the toastmaster of the banquet. Among the speakers on the program will be Dean W. B. Donham '98, of the Business School, and Mr. A. D. Little, noted chemical engineer and President of the Arthur D. Little...