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Eugene O'Neill got a gratifying pat on the back from a Manhattan judge. A bum accused of swiping the manuscript of an unproduced, unpublished O'Neill play from a parked car wanted the charge against him reduced from grand larceny to petty theft; but the judge firmly said...
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...United Nations never stirred). Longshoreman Willie May was ambushed and shot dead through the window of the men's room in the Four Leaf saloon on Henry Street (and the Moscow press did not even toss an adjective). Three liquor stores were held up, involving a total theft of $713 and one gold watch (the U.S. State Department did not so much as lift an eyebrow). Mrs. Mary Gordon, returning home from the movies, stabbed her husband with a bolo knife (and East and West still held their uneasy peace...
...that they had run out of ideas; nothing so untechnical as that. The fact is that some students--and any Technite will swear they were from Harvard--took advantage of the uproar to perpetrate a nefarious crime, namely the theft of a plate from the bridge which bears the solemn designation "Harvard Bridge...
Desk Sergeant Finnegan on duty at the Cambridge Police station last night corroborated this impression for all of the city, after consultation with his blotter showed a few minor larcenies. Boston police, however, listed a $2000 jewelry and clothing theft from a Sarah Lawrence Crimson fan, Miss Margaret Taylor...