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...quick municipal police raid on Parkhurst's suite in the Back Bay Apartments on 1572 Massachusetts Avenue yielded not only stacks of his fellow students' bursars cards, which he used as false identification to cash his looted checks, but "two truck-loads" of stolen property, according to Chief Inspector P. F. Ready...
...with the Russian verb zhdat, to wait or to expect, it is a good name for a man who was to ride quietly up the party escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member of the Politburo. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 when he was 19, and had an undistinguished career as an organizer until, after years of fidelity...
...after. And Skum always had an uncanny feeling for the one thing most artists have to learn from other people's pictures-perspective. But until he got too old and fat to camp comfortably, Skum found little time to draw. He was in his 60s before the Swedish inspector of nomad schools (which supplies teachers to follow the Lapps) gave him the notion of writing and illustrating a book about Lapp life...
...immigration lineup, was questioned, examined, and cross-examined as if he were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration. The diplomat, now fuming, refused, started off to call the State Department. The customs officials reconsidered, allowed him to stalk off without signing. The Soviet Embassy made formal protest; the State Department began investigating...
...Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...