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...safecrackers hung around for a week, can openers in their pockets, "carrying books and trying to look like graduate students." Finally, late one night they eluded the Yard Cop ("a frosty character who didn't even pack a rod"), jimmied open a cellar window, went in and blew the safe, escaping undetected with the loot--"some $100,000 worth...
Local savants are indulging in their annual June custom of trying to pick the man who will cop Honorary Degrees in the Commencement stakes...
...eared, tobacco-chewing County Judge Willie Bob Howard set the stage for Metcalfe's brief career as a cop. The judge took drastic steps to enforce the law. The ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
Hill, who cracked the old chestnut, "No my father doesn't work for a living--he's a cop" in front of a policeman outside the University Theater two weeks ago, had previously refused to pay a $3 fine ordered by the Third District Court...
While the student in this case was arrested for making an insulting joke ("Does your father work? No. he's a cop.") which, according to the officer, drew a crowd in the Square, it seems to me that the citizenry have been most insulted. If that old chestnut can draw a crowd, the future of our race is indeed black...