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...owner of Elsie's, Phil Markell, left for the Cambridge Trust about 10 a.m. with the previous night's receipts in hand, the would-be thief snatched the money bag which Markell said contained about...
...Rice, a hard-living New Yorker who died in 1964 at the age of 29 while shooting a film in Mexico, made the most affecting movie that the new cinema has turned out to date: The Flower Thief. Certainly a vagrant, possibly an imbecile, the film's hero wanders the streets of San Francisco by day, a grown man pulling a little wagon that carries his Teddy bear. At night he goes back to the abandoned factory where a gang of derelicts chases him through the cellars with a terrible silent intensity. As interpreted with a marvelous simplicity...
Workmen hauling a rare 11th century Cambodian statue from an elevator let it fall and broke its nose. Next, a thief slipped into the museum and made off with a 19th century Japanese scroll. Then an epidemic of "bronze disease" corrosion broke out twice among the priceless Buddhas. And what's worse, the roof leaked. All that was a bit much for Millionaire Builder Avery Brundage, 79, president of the international Olympic committee and one of the world's foremost collectors of Oriental art, who donated his $30 million hoard of treasures to the city of San Francisco...
Crucible Test. Disheartened as he was to hear the jury declare Baker a thief, tax evader and conspirator, Williams could not-and did not-complain. The trial confirmed the very creed that drives and goads him. "The Sixth Amendment gave every accused the right to have the assistance of counsel for his defense," says Williams. "The framers did not say every accused except gamblers, thieves and robbers...
...Impenitent Thief...