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...cop in front of the White House was in a gloomy mood. All day long, all night long, pickets of the American Peace Mobilization-always at least a dozen of them-paraded up & down before the White House. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the relentless pickets kept...
Free. In Little Rock, a cop brought in a vagrant. "Who are you?" asked the desk sergeant. "I am a Free Frenchman," said the man. "You were a free Frenchman," corrected the sergeant...
Correspondent Young lived in Japan 13 years. He doesn't live there any more. One day in January 1940, Correspondent Young answered a smart rap on his door. Outside was a Japanese plain-clothes cop who invited him to visit police headquarters for a brief conversation. There the police took away Young's shoes. "You are not going anywhere," they said. To William T. Turner of the U.S. Embassy, who accompanied Young, they shouted: "The American Embassy people are fools. Get out of here!" But Jimmy Young did not get out for two months. Most of that time...
...boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
...pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with a cop...