Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more resembled wholesale looting than casual stealing. In view of the individual student's ignorance of the whole picture, those University authorities who recognized that this was a persistent, going business, could have made a flat official statement of the seriousness of the situation with the suggestion that the serial numbers and labels of all watches, cameras, typewriters and clothing be noted down, locked doors or no. There could have followed a strong recommendation that subsequent thefts be reported not only to the Yard cops, but to the Cambridge police. The way the city police have with these cases involves...
Undoubtedly, the confusion surrounding the thefts was not in any way cleared up by those Harvard men who could volunteer considerable heat about their losses, but not the serial numbers or even the makes of their typewriters or cameras. And, of course, the arrival of federal agents in the late stages to consider the separate question of check thefts, ended all independent investigation by Yard and city police...
...indigestible plot, full of false leads and unkept promises, is like a woman's magazine serial consumed at one gulp. It begins as a romance. Miss Hepburn is a scientist's daughter-a moody, headstrong girl who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life. Then Robert Taylor, a fabulously rich airplane-parts tycoon, sweeps her off her feet...
...Hoberecht was rolling in yen-which he could not spend outside Japan. A publisher was hounding him for rights to an English-language edition. (Hoberecht wrote his book in English, got a Japanese friend to have it translated.) A Tokyo newspaper wanted to run the book as a serial, and two of Japan's three leading cinemakers were bidding for the screen rights. If he were asked to play the hero's role, said Hoberecht, he "probably wouldn't refuse." And he certainly would want to pick the leading lady...
...that fellow Gabriel Whoosis, with his "Ah, there's news tonight." . . . There's those mournful serial programs, all unhappiness and grief...