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...largest felony, a theft of $1,000 from the safe of the oxford Grill, is the only one which showed signs of professional polish. It occurred after the restaurant had closed, and Lt. Joseph Breen, who is conducting the police investigation, has put forward the theory that the thief hid himself in the basement, making his way to the office after everyone had left...
...Lesley Storm; produced by John Wildberg) refers to the nightgown that matronly, well-to-do Alicia Christie (Flora Robson) shoplifted off a counter. She had gone out to shop for a dinner party in honor of her son's marriage and she came home facing trial for theft. The rest of the play searches out, with a psychiatrist's help, her motive for so strange an act, and then ponders whether she can use the motive for her defense. She finds that, just as her husband has always jealously resented her being so close to their...
...just about its only virtue. It is one of those triangle stories of the husband, the wife and the offspring treated to a British mixture of the melodramatic, the mawkish and the scandalous. It is Freud for suburban housewives whose buzzing classroom is the Wednesday matinee. Offering theft as an aperitif, it follows up with a seemingly headier and more dangerous brew that is actually rather saccharine and soporific...
...always collected mineral samples, he said, and when he left Los Alamos he had taken the plutonium off his desk and "just walked out with it." He had realized, "almost instantly" that he didn't want it. But he could not take it back without revealing the theft. "It seems pretty silly now," he said, "but it was like having a bull by the tail...
...reporter for Britain's Manchester Guardian tells the story of an overcoat which was stolen from a U.S. vice consul in Pusan and which the local authorities were anxious to recover. A few days after the theft, Pusan's chief of police personally reported to the coat's owner. "All is well," said the chief, "as I am currently torturing two suspects...