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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...detailed 77-page statement to Republican State's Attorney Benjamin Adamowski, Burglar Morrison told of a year spent stealing with the cops of the Summerdale District. Morrison filched antifreeze for his colleagues in the winter, outboard motors in the spring, television sets as the World Series rolled around. Generally, Morrison kept what cash he could find, and the stolen merchandise went to the cops, who arranged to have it hauled away. "They wouldn't let me get by over a week," he complained in his statement, "without asking me to give them a night of my services...
...believe that the moment has at length come when the Federal government must provide some significant share of the cost of education," declares the Democratic Party's brain-trusting Advisory Council this week in a 30-page report entitled Education and Freedom's Future. Mixing a facts-and-figures look at America's schooling needs with political sallies suitable for 1960 platform use, the report is the work of a committee headed by William Benton,* onetime Senator from Connecticut, adman (Benton & Bowles), vice president of the University of Chicago (1937-45), publisher (1942-45) of the Encyclopaedia...
Then, save for one or two disgruntled voices, e.g., Le Monde, which gave the birth a last-page yawn, the French press turned eagerly to the story's next chapter: full-page horoscope readings on Nicholas Jacques. "He'll be tough and aggressive" (Ici). "He'll take up art or literature" (France-Dimanche). "He'll be the first man on the moon" (Paris-Jour...
...Story on Page One (20th Century-Fox): WIFE AND LOVER HELD IN HUSBAND SLAYING. The husband (Alfred Ryder) is a detective on the police force of a big city in California. His wife (Rita Hayworth) falls in love with a young widower (Gig Young) who visits her one night in her kitchen. The husband catches them, pulls a pistol, is shot dead in the scuffle. Charged with murder, the pair are defended by two attorneys-he by a boozy old bungler, she by a fast-talking, hard-sweating young attorney (Anthony Franciosa) who seems to be terribly afraid that...
Lucius had been saving the best for the end, and gripping the most popular of the three books, he turned to page 179. He had chosen his subject carefully. Next to the sentence...