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...muttered to Goethe: "Keep your arm linked in mine; they must make room for us, not we for them." Yet in 1812 the man who had liberated music from its classical bounds, and raised composers to something more than servants of a court, wrote to a friend, "Do not rob Handel, Haydn, Mozart of their laurel wreaths: they deserve them; I have not yet earned mine...
Stand by the Citizenry Three times since 1946, holdup men have tried and failed to rob the little Bank of Middleton at Middleton (pop. 350), Tenn. Last week, when a customer slipped out to report that a fourth holdup was in progress, Middleton's citizens reached for their guns. That was just too bad for a 36-year-old Memphis desperado named Robert Henry Bondurant...
...another match played yesterday, the freshman "D" easily shut out the Tennis and Racquet Club team, 5 to 0, at the Tennis and Racquet Club. Rob Albert, Jim McIntosh, Jay Hathaway, Dave Berndt, and Al Haegler played for the Yardlings...
...match at Exeter this afternoon. This is the first outing for the combined Crimson team since last weekend's losses to Williams and Deerfield. Coach Corey Wynn will probably start his usual lineup today; it consists of Guy Paschal, Bill Wister, Bob Brown, Bats Wheeler, Mike Levinson, Jim McIntosh, Rob Albert, Jay Hathaway, and Dave Berndt...
...pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant who had seen his king. "I just froze up there." On their "mistaken" package they left the label of a real dry cleaner for whom Paladino used to work...