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Music to the Ear. In Nashville, Algie King, picked up for attempted auto theft six hours after he finished a two-year prison sentence for auto theft, protested that he was merely "listening to the motor...
Monuments & Dancing. Today, Freiburg's cops can look forward to quiet evenings. Judge Härringer's boys' town now has 300 members, most of them on probation for petty theft. They proudly call themselves "the Härringer Boys," have a spacious new civic center donated by the city. Instead of roaming aimlessly, the boys are split into groups of 15, are led by young men from Freiburg's Youth Office and university to visit historical monuments, factories and schools. Evenings, they enjoy table-tennis tournaments, musicals and dances with girls from the university...
...Spring Valley, N.Y., ex-Convict George Poper was arrested after winning $165 for his hard-luck story on TV's Strike It Rich. When a kinescope of the show was telecast in Austin, Texas, Poper was recognized as a fugitive from an indictment for embezzlement and theft...
...Milwaukee Journal serves the public by 1) reporting virtually everything that happens in the city of 637,392, even down to the theft of a few chickens; and 2) covering national and world news with meticulous thoroughness. To European visitors, and even Americans from cities much bigger than Milwaukee, the Journal is often a sharp surprise, for it confounds both the mistaken idea that the American Midwest is a wellspring of unrelieved isolationism or that "provincial" journalism must indeed be provincial...
...bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves and most of the treasure, found a pile of the missing jewels in a locker in Chicago's Illinois Central Station...