Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...McNew when, two days later, he started across the street toward the courthouse to answer a charge of drunken driving. Suddenly, from behind a corner, out popped Photographer Jones again and leveled his camera. That was too much for Ed McNew. He grabbed at his hip pocket, hauled out a pistol, took aim with both hands, and blazed away. Photographer Jones dodged back behind the wall-but not until he had snapped another picture of Ed McNew. One of the most remarkable newsphotos ever taken, staring straight into the muzzle of a gun, it was evidence enough, thought Howard Jones...
Chiefly, there is the Dramatic Club. Its new schedule of four plays a year instead of two should be a pat on the back to any undergraduate playwright with a burning manuscript in his pocket. And the Student Union Dramatic Club, too, should pop up again this spring with as good a production as their "The Cradle Will Rock" and "Waiting For Lefty" of the last two years...
Ingenious are the methods of the monitoring crews. Often they trace an illegal transmitter to a large office building. They find out which office houses the set by using portable detector outfits, small enough to fit into a vest pocket and equipped with indicators geared to rise with proximity to the transmitter. Most such bootleg equipment is used by gamblers, who are often able, by means of quick flashes, to place last-minute bets on horse races already...
...North Atlantic Ocean. The hunters were patient, powerful units of the Royal Navy, equipped with aircraft which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
...bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...