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...professor was a wonderful burglar, but he and Francine got to fighting over such issues as who would pay the $150-3-month rent on their off-campus love nest. She spitefully threatened to expose his criminal career. Last July she even browbeat him into signing a confession. He sat down and typed out a list of his burglaries, blaming them on "neurotic individualism." Francine gave the confession to a Santa Barbara detective, who just as obediently kept a promise not to read it until she gave the word...
...visitor to the untidy London flat might guess, it houses an old bachelor. In the sitting room, a hastily thrown coverlet drapes an obviously unmade bed. A litter of books, manuscripts and knick-knacks lines walls and floors like the twigs of a nest. Amiably at home in this cozy mess flutters a rare old bird, the dean of English letters, Edward Morgan Forster...
...Communist Louis Budenz attacked the University last night in Dorchester as being a "red nest." Budenz, now a fierce anti-Communist, branded John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy, as "Reds," before a large crowd. After his speech, Mayor Hynes presented him with the key to Boston, and called him a "leader in the American way of life...
Home would be a place "where you can see all the treasures of the house at one view ... at once kitchen, pantry, parlor, chamber, storehouse and garret ... A house whose inside is as open and manifest as a bird's nest. . . where to be a guest is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be carefully excluded from seven-eighths of it, shut up in a particular cell and told to make yourself at home there-in solitary confinement...
...Covner was in the headlines last week when his teen-aged baby sitter stole a $20,000 nest egg hidden in his home and went to New York on a spree...