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...work for the Personnel Office to hire four new caretakers for the maintenance department, advise the Yard cop about his old age insurance, or maybe settle a difficulty for some secretary over in University Hall...
...circumstantial events, that her beloved uncle is a murderer, and that he wants to murder her. By skillful transfer of emotion, Director Hitchcock loads the most commonplace things with ominous overtones. A broken porch step, a cranky garage door, the cheerful family bickering at the dinner table, a traffic cop's scolding as the girl runs across a street to the library-these become major elements in building up a crescendo of terror...
...reign one of day terror" came just one day after the (TIME, New Dec. 14) York City Teachers Guild (A. F. of L.) and other teacher groups openly asked police to protect them from violent students. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia replied that the terror was exaggerated, that the New York cop would remain the children's friend...
After five false starts in six months, Artist Hélion finally decided to fake a toothache. Ordered to bed one Friday the 13th, Hélion escaped while the guards were busy with the other prisoners. He got to the street in civilian clothes. A Nazi cop hove in sight. Artist Hélion immediately went up to him and asked him the time. Asked the cop: "What are you doing in a forbidden area?" Said Hélion: "I'm a worker imported from Antwerp." He added: "Where can I get a decent glass of beer...
News candidates get to know Cambridge and the University grounds as well as a Yard cop; they can enter Deans' offices without trembling; the magic word "CRIMSON candidate" will be an open sesame to such forbidden portals as the Navy smokers and the Old Howard dressing rooms...