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Flyleaf. In Columbus. Ohio, a thief broke into the office of the Northminster Presbyterian Church, pocketed $10.40 from a desk drawer, left a note: "God Bliss You. I'm Sorry But The World...
...ASSISTANT, by Bernard Malamud. An aging Jewish Brooklyn grocer, a holdup and a thief's remorse seem hardly the substance of a good novel. This book becomes one through its tender, realistic grasp of the meanings, small defeats and even smaller victories in the lives of seemingly hopeless people...
Market Crash. In San Bernardino, Calif., as he and a sheriff's officer chased a burglar through his supermarket, Owner Charles R. Barmlett drew a careful bead on the thief, fired his revolver, wounded the deputy in the thigh...
Occupational Therapy. In South Shields, England, after a juvenile court sent a 16-year-old petty thief to a psychiatrist in the hope of finding out what made him steal, the doctor reported that the boy had swiped $2.80 during the consultations...
Equally as ridiculous as communist historical exaggerations were the claims made for Russia's fabulous inventors. These credited Popov with the discovery of the radio and made Marconi only a thief who profitted from the fruit of Popov's searches. Zhukovskij, the "father of flying," replaced the Wright brothers, Edison also bowed out before a Russian, and so on until every epochal inventive laurel was redistributed...