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...editors of the Rutgers Targum have called the theft "nothing but poor sportsmanship." Their editorial goes on to brand the men who stole the Little Red Cannon "poor losers...
Things get a little livelier in the second feature which, if not quite a thriller, at least offers automobile chases, loud pistol reports, and stony-faced intrigue. Entitled "Second Chance," it concerns a projected million-dollar jewel theft, in the course of which two of the crafty schemers fall in love. They double-cross their accomplices, enabling the movie to end on a clinch between two law-abiding citizens...
While the scores of uninhibited pencils present a major problem to Harvard librarians, outright theft of valuable books runs a close second in the minds of Widener officials. Library patrons, adept in squeezing past the guards and equally well-versed in the art of filling out bogus charge slips, make off with an average 500 books each year. A more efficient checking system at the exits and a program to distribute identification cards to men using the library could easily protect the entire student body from the greed of a light-fingered...
...theft was not discovered until the office staff returned from their extended Columbus Day weekend and needed the machine for their work. Randall's office had no leads for the local constables other than to forward the machine's model and serial number...
This is a collection of engaging and often touching chronicles of crime in an age (1660-1800) when a petty theft could send an Englishman to the gallows. Editor de la Torre's scholarship is graced with gusto that sometimes falls into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables...