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...nighttime" statute unconstitutional, Associate Justice John V. Spalding '20, author of the opinion, wrote that "Suspicion, which is an inadequate ground for arrest is no more satisfactory as a basis for punishment." Similarly Spalding noted that "The use of the vagabond charge rather than a charge of theft or attempted theft suggests an absence of probable cause and the consequent evasion of traditional constitutional safeguards that results when suspicion, which admits of no predictable boundaries, is the basis for arrest and punishment...
...order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...
...says Louis A. Sassow, acting head of Reference and Circulation, "those books are in the XR cage primarily to protect them from theft and mutilation...
...night off the streets. Convinced that the girls are a picaresque asset that visiting bankers would want to see, if not buy, the chief of the foreign-capital division struck a deal with the streetwalkers: the girls would be unbothered if they policed themselves and kept their diseased and theft-prone sisters out of action for the week...
...Airline Thefts. At least one of Wells, Rich, Greene's ideas has already boomeranged. In her dealings with Braniff, Mary Wells persuaded the airline to paint its jets in pastel hues and garb its stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms. But a Wells ad showing an elderly woman passenger stealing everything from a Braniff blanket to the plane itself has had the unintended effect of dramatically increasing the line's theft rate. No matter how the American Motors campaign goes over, however, there are hopes that some of the company's cars will sell well. Based on optimism...