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Other than that, Mrs. Oswald, how did you enjoy Minsk? | page 1, 2
About the same time Ferdinand's blood was being spilled in a Queens parking lot, Jacksonville, Fla., police Lt. Steve Farley asked Richard Hayes, owner of the New to You consignment shop, to cover up a little minx in his charge known as Trixie. "It was a suggestion. It wasn't an order or a threat. It was primarily a way we might avoid some traffic accidents," Farley explained. Douglas Cruickshank Douglas Cruickshank's Rogues' Gallery appears every Thursday. The Raw and the Cooked appears every Saturday.
Good citizen Hayes saw to it that the curvaceous, shameless (and may I say deliciously firm) Trixie better covered her bountiful equipment, but only under protest: "If it was a thong or a real skimpy French bikini, I wouldn't let her wear it. But this is a real good-size, two-piece bathing suit and she is covered. You see more at the beach," Hayes said. Unfortunately, Trixie, being a mannequin, doesn't get to the beach much. The biggest crime stories for the week came from across le grande pond, reported by our friends at the Times of London. First we have the case of Darren Machon, 22, the very industrious, makin'- For his part, busy Mr. Machon is now back in custody and I think he deserves a tip of the cap from each and every one of us. "He has now resolved never to go back to a life of crime," his lawyer says, which I for one find highly commendable. Finally, proving that only wimps back up, a certain bunch of Cambridge University smarty-pants scholars -- 15 of them, cataloging and studying the work of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein -- kinda outsmarted themselves. The group has spent the last decade compiling "two massive volumes" of the great Austrian philosopher's works -- all on computer disks. The bummer is that when burglars last week broke in and stole the group's CD writer and laptop, they also made off with the disks -- none of which had been backed up. The Times reports that Wittgenstein's entire opus "has yet to be assembled in one place" and another group at the University of Bergen is working on a similar project. In an act of profound wisdom, that group, described by the Times as "Norwegian academics," quickly, prudently, made copies of their research, which, again (like Mr. Machon's resolution) I find commendable -- ever so.
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