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...France's top box office stars for four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession (1959). As bourgeois in his private life as he often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1976 | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Daniel Del Vecchio '77, general manager at HSA, said that if refrigerators had been stolen from the HSA warehouse, the thief would not have necessarily been an employee with a key. "During the day you can get in pretty easily," Del Vecchio said last week...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: HSA Loses One-Third Of Its 600 Refrigerators; Theft Thought a Possibility | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

During his mission, Stromberg found himself paired with a potato picker from Idaho, a reformed thief from Baltimore and a Japanese missionary who introduced Stromberg to the language, customs, and life he would have to lead. But Stromberg found it very easy to get along with his companions: "You forget a lot of yourself when you're working with somebody to accomplish a common goal that exists outside of yourself.," he says. "Especially one you're totally dedicated to and believe...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: They Took Two Years to Proselytize, But Now They're at Harvard Again | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

...occasional stevedore on the Dieppe piers, a drifter, a petty thief, he drank heavily, and then would get into fights. He was even known as "Judoka," the judo expert, because of his brawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cain and Abel | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Since they cannot crack Broadway, Harry and Walter decide the next best thing would be to break into a bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sowing Wild Oafs | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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