Word: pickpockets
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Another outstanding National League rookie is Centerfielder Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves (TIME, March 20), who steals bases with the ease of a practiced pickpocket. Ordinarily no slugger, switch-hitter Jethroe has several times managed to knock the ball out of the park when a home run was what the Braves needed most, and his early-season average as a .300 hitter brought him a salary raise. At midseason, the fleet 28-year-old Negro is the almost unchallenged base-stealer of the major leagues: 24 bases, 15 more than his nearest competitor...
...Bite. In Eastbourne, England, police warned the public against a pickpocket who squirts toothpaste on his victims' clothing, then niches their wallets while helping them wipe...
...achieving of high humanitarian purposes by the easy method of using the involuntary good Samaritan ... is not edifying. There ought to be a better method of making the legal order effective for our humanitarian ideals than that of Robin Hood or that of the pickpocket who . . . was so moved by the preacher's eloquence that he picked the pockets of everyone in reach and put the contents in the plate...