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Ralph B. Gates, Director of Buildings and Grounds at Radcliffe, said that he had reported the thefts to the police, but there are no suspects as yet. Since all of the items were stolen from locked closets, the thief probably has a master key, which can unlock any door in the building...

Author: By Nancy H. Davis, | Title: Thief Spends Christmas in 'Cliffe Closets' | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...five years, Bonanza stars Lome Greene as a late 19th century Nevada rancher who talks softly and with psychiatric insight while combating, say, a half-breed horse thief, who was the heavy in this week's show. The dialogue uses pithy aphorisms ("When you are only half of something, you are really half of nothing"), which eventually works its way toward a modern message: "Never feel guilty about having warm human feelings toward anyone." The episodes are surprisefully plotted and seek variety in the bizarre: next week a knight in armor rides out the purple sage and rams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Year of the Photo Finish | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Ironically, this student's room seems to have been struck by a potential thief at least once before. A roommate reported yesterday that several weeks ago, a youth had mistakenly come into the bathroom while the roommate was taking a shower. Obviously a bit shaken, the youth asked "Can you tell me where Ken--'s room is?" And then, he too field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Plundered By Petty Thieves | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...University detective quizzed both boys yesterday morning. He indicated to one of the roommates that he might be asked to identify the thief from photographs in a mugbook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Plundered By Petty Thieves | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...National Enquirer. Turn-of-the-century postcards are Camp; so is enthusiasm for the ballet Swan Lake and the 1933 movie King Kong. Dirty movies are Camp -provided one gets no sexual kick out of them-and so are the ideas of the French playwright Jean Genet, an ex-thief and pederast who boasts about it. "Genet's statement that 'the only criterion of an act is its elegance' is virtually interchangeable, as a statement, with Wilde's 'In matters of great importance, the vital element is not sincerity, but style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste: Camp | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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