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Captain George DePinto, of the Yard cops' bowling team, interviewed early this morning, expressed every confidence in the ability of his team to beat Yale's Campus cop bowlers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flatfoots Fling Alley-Spheres Today | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

...writing. Concerned with life in a small New Hampshire community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic cop, living newspaper and cracker-barrel philosopher. The whole effect gives ten times as much "theatre" as conventional scenery could give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...prominent retired Yard cop last night expressed his disgust with the whole affair, especially the neophyte, and said there was never any cat like good old Sarah, whereabouts unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED SWAMPED WITH CALLS AS PUBLIC CLAMORS FOR CAT | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

Saturday she retaliated with a live kitten, which has fallen into the hands of Colonel Apted. The kitten is fated to lead a peaceful life as the new Yard cop cat, but still Thurston seeths with a vengeful spirit, for he is pondering upon an effective couner-attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT SENDS CABBAGE TO HIS LOVE--RECEIVES KITTEN | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height of dinner-hour traffic, a move which ended, as it was supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare was the part played by pickets already in patrol wagons. Systematically as a newcomer stepped in he would be pushed out on the heads of the police. Exasperated by this kind of picketing- 10% of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of an Institution | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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