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Claiming to know enough Harvard men "to put the average Yard cop to shame," modest "Pop" Garnet, 225 pound, 6 foot ticket-taker and bouncer at the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, last night celebrated his birthday by stating that his life-long ambition is to be on the University police force...
...helping to load a sanitation truck at night. A passing pedestrian asks you the location of a street address. You do not know the answer. . . . Of the following, the best procedure is to tell the pedestrian a) that you are a sanitation man and not a traffic cop, b) not to interfere with a city employee in the performance of his duties, c) to ask another man in the crew because you are busy, d) that you do not know and refer him to a nearby traffic officer, e) to look it up in the telephone book...
...Various newspapers squawked that Hoover's headquarters in Miami Beach had been a villa on The Nautilus (hotel) grounds, a palm-shaded island guarded from the world by a moat and a cop stationed at the bridge, and quoted rates for the villa at $175 a week, meals not included...
...Policeman Hoover whose men eliminated the Baby Face Nelsons, John Dillingers, Pretty Boy Floyds, broke the kidnapping business of half a dozen years ago and blasted Public Enemies No. 1 as fast as they arose, returned to his spacious office at FBI headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live...
...York. Major Sargent tries hard to keep a coach-like pessimistic note in his voice when he speaks about it, but it is certain that if the Harvard team does as well as he expects against Yale, it will go down to New York with a good chance to cop the championship...