Word: theft
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Heavy Take. In Seattle, the Sealth Souvenir Shop reported the theft of its 7-ft., 200-lb. wooden Indian. In Rio de Janeiro, a university student made off with a municipal street...
...This is the first time any theft has been charged against a student employed through this office." John W. Holt, director of the Employment Office, which placed Knaus in his job, said last night. The office has existed is some form for over 100 years...
Cambridge police held Knaus on $5000 bail. He denied any knowledge of the theft and appears this morning in District Court...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., Cinemactress Jennifer Jones and Producer David O. Selznick, who were married in July 1949, finally got around to taking inventory of their wedding presents. Then they hastily called the police to report the theft of a pair of covered silver dishes and a tray worth $2,000, but had to admit they had no idea when the theft might have happened...
...Times had called the theft "a coarse and vulgar crime," and the BBC had banned all jokes mentioning the Stone, including the remark that no Scot could have taken the Stone because no Scot would have left a wrist watch behind. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Need we English be much wounded by the loss of the Stone, if it is never recovered? We have a far better and more respectable one of our own, the King's Stone, now at Kingston-on-Thames, on which the Saxon Kings were crowned...