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...striking seamen (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week he was quickly entered on the Board's books as a "hostile witness." A strikebreaker for 20 years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman.'' Asked what references he had offered, "Chowderhead" Cohen grunted: "They never ask for no references in this line of work. Tell 'em anything. Tell 'em nuttin'!" Witness Cohen flushed angrily when asked if he had ever been convicted of crime. "I got a right...
Last week the trustees indignantly announced that vandals had invaded the park, cut loose more than a ton of track-bearing sandstone with pneumatic drills, carted the precious material away. The police were without a clue. Mr. Pellissier hired a watchman. At week's end the vandals had not offered their booty to the most likely buyer-Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester...
...Harvard is a good employer", said one of the night watchman who has been connected with the University for over 25 years. "If anything happens to you, you know your family will be taken care of, and anyone that's been here sometime is usually provided for when he resigns. Personally I think we'd be just as well off under the present system, without any pension plan...
...Camden, N. J., Watchman John Bonitatibus came home to find a new billboard on the lot which his five children used as a playground. Irate John Bonitatibus smashed the billboard with an ax, hung U. S. flags on the wreckage, posted a placard: COMMISSIONERS- WE WANT A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND HERE, NOT BILLBOARDS. Next day, armed with a petition signed by the parents of 200 neighboring moppets, John Bonitatibus marched to City Hall, got the billboard removed...
...Psychologist Carney Landis of Manhattan reported to the American Medical Association on an unnamed young man who, believing sleep a waste of time and nothing but a habit, persuaded psychiatrists to give him a no-sleep endurance lest. He was not watched constantly but had to turn a watchman's clock every ten minutes. He dozed off seven times during the ten-day test and his naps totaled about five hours...