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...Graduate School Recreation Room to play ping-pong, we noticed two young teen-agers apparently waiting for a table. After we had played several games we invited them to join in and play doubles. Their conduct was proper in every respect. Before we had completed one game, a Yard cop and a buildings official arrived and bodily removed our youthful opponents. We protested that it was as our guests that they were playing. Because of our protest the Yard cop demanded the name of one of us. We resumed play only to be interrupted again by the return...
...replied in the affirmative, and four of us followed him into the superintendent's office in William James Hall. There two Harvard policemen, two members of the Cambridge police force, and the buildings official were ominously confronting the two frightened youths in a completely unlighted room. The Yard cop allowed only one of us into the room and he was soon informed that he could be booked on the charge of contributing to juvenile delinquency for inviting the two boys to play. Realizing that the boys were already in the game-room when we invited them to play, the cop...
Parimutuel. In Mobile, Ala., a highway cop spotted two cars racing at 80 m.p.h., pinched Drivers Johnnie Gamble and Noble Hurry...
...plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here for five years," said one bewildered cop, "and I never thought I had an enemy...
More serious was the corruption of rank & file party members. After seizing Shanghai, the Third Army command had paired off thousands of Yangtse village Communists with members of the city's Nationalist police force, the idea being that the cop would pick up some Communism and the Communist would learn to handle a city beat. As of last week, the party admitted, all the poorly paid Communists seemed to have learned was the cops' respect for the "material comforts of capitalism...