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...Critic. In Los Angeles, police looked for the thief who walked up to a movie house, poked a pistol at Theater Cashier Kay Lee Stafford, said: "I didn't like the movie. Give me everybody's money back," and walked off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Married. Jessie Royce Landis, 51, veteran actress of Broadway (Kiss and Tell) and Hollywood (To Catch a Thief, The Swan); and Major General John Francis Regis Seitz, 48, commander (since May) of the U.S.'s Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran; both for the second time; in Teheran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Catch a Thief. In Lisbon, Mario Fernandes Neves tried to steal a cop's motorcycle in front of the city jail, was arrested after prisoners spotted him from a cell window, called police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Senate Herman will find opportunity to voice his outrage against the present Justices of the Supreme Court ("A little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County"). Isolationist as well as segregationist, he will take a stand against what he regards as pressing evils today in the U.S., e.g., foreign aid, overseas alliances, low tariffs, the breadth of the President's treaty-making powers. His views, his youthful vigor and his name will make Herman a new rallying point for the Democratic Party's Southern wing. Says Georgia Political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Red Galluses | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Pedal Extremity. In Manhattan, chasing a suspicious-looking bicyclist, Detective John Keeney saw his quarry slipping away as the patrol car jammed in traffic, grabbed a delivery boy's bicycle, nabbed Bicycle Thief Camelio Vanterpool 35 blocks from where the chase started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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