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Thieves for Witnesses. Being a stranger to orderly legal procedure did not hurt Mieke Bouman: so was the court. Two prosecution witnesses testified in court that they had given evidence under duress. One witness was a convicted thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Jungschlaeger Case | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Married. Rita Gam, 27, sultry TV and screen (The Thief, Saadia) actress; and Thomas Henry Guinzburg, 29, Viking Press executive; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...presidency, he faced a charge that, while governor from 1947 to 1951 he had passed out 3,000,000 cruzeiros' worth of Chevrolet cars and trucks to his churns. Through it all, though, Adhemar treated such charges with good-natured indifference. "You people believe I'm a thief," he said in a speech. "You're right. I'm a thief. But I steal only for you, for the people of Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The People's Thief | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Poetic License. In Boise, Idaho, police looked for the thief who stole the hubcaps from John Zeltner's auto, left a note on the front seat: "Roses are red, violets are blue, Oldsmobiles are nice, and I like hubcaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...youngest thief, Wayne Maxwell projects an innocence that is both amusing and ironical. His girl friend, Georgia Boyko, tries for much the same spirit in her role and achieves a reasonably coherent characterization. But the best job of acting is that of Sharon Gans, as the knowing old lady who sets the plot in motion. Although the actress is young, the character fully bears the burden of old age and its tedium...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Thieves' Carnival | 3/6/1956 | See Source »

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