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...kissed Betty goodbye, and flew to Cleveland to sell eleven little packets of stolen diamonds. There he was trapped, almost by accident. As he sat talking to a jeweler named Irwin Nussbaum, in walked the jeweler's nephew, one Zoltan Greenhut. Greenhut remembered seeing a "wanted" poster bearing Dennis' photograph, and called police...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that I really don't understand!]." Throughout the Soviet zone, her phrase appears morning after morning scribbled below some grandiose Communist poster...
...Yale Victory Dance" the poster shouted to Vag in big blue letters as he loped down the entry steps on his way to the Pro. He crossed the courtyard and waded through several piles of leaves before the proclamation reached his inner self, already plagued by calculations of punch bowl capacity. Several steps further and he was saying to himself, over and over, "Yale Victory Dance." Several steps more and he stopped dead, thunderstruck. Yale victory indeed...
...thought again of the blue poster and decided on a different tack. Taking a tremendous breath, he hollered "Yale Wins Today!" and ran along the brick sidewalks as the yell boomed back at him from the walls. Green bags turned slowly and stared at him; the gray flannels glared. This time the people turned around and blocked his way; as he crossed the street, all the cars seemed to leap at him. There was some spirit after all. Vag jumped back quickly, but with a smile on his face. Hitching up his tie, he walked confidently back toward...