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...lounging on the steps and cried, "Sitting around? Mercy! I thought you boys studied all the time!" She dashed in and I followed, but a policeman turned me away and I had to climb in a window. I ran around to the front door and asked the cop if I could go out, but he wouldn't let me until I said I was Eddie Fisher trying to get some fresh air. I went back in, and spied Debbie cavorting on the stage with some hula girls. From time to time she would draw her skirt up to a chalk...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

...using pumps and sheet-metal cofferdams, they reached the deep tombs that the Comacchiesi had missed. Guided by Professor Paolo Enrico Arias of the Uni versity of Catania (who wears a beret and looks, except for his red rubber boots, like a movie director of the Keystone Cop period), the laborers extracted a stream of beautiful things dating from the time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young Etruscan woman with a necklace of Baltic amber and a beautifully worked gold brooch an inch and a half in diameter. Another yielded a gold diadem seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Treasures of Comacchio | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...tailback Royce Flippin was fighting mad. He beat his cast against the wall as he spoke. "I'm sitting right down in Cap and Gown now with a good scotch and soda, and I want to see any cop move me or anyone else out of here at seven o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leaders Seek New York As Social Outlet | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

...already paid a $600 fine for ignoring a fistful of parking tickets; now he was threatened with a 15-day stretch in the workhouse. Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh glared at the young (24) Negro, listened to his lawyer's plea for mercy, and surprised every cop in the city by suspending Saxton's sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Philadelphia Fiasco | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...fans are more lively, too; not even in enemy Ebbets Field is the razzberry rendered with such enthusiasm. Nor do U.S. bleacher jockeys often get involved in the free-for-alls that brighten the Puerto Rican afternoon. Not long ago, a cop caught a razor-blade salesman handing out free samples in the San Juan stands. Puerto Rican fans have never been known to shave between innings, but they are apt to find other uses for razors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Winter Leagues | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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