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...ideal companion. Like José, white-haired Abdias Scares da Silva was a habitual criminal with a long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state...
...system, and in so far as it advocates overthrow of the American government. While the moral issue does not disappear by making communism a sort of civil offense, it is relegated to far less importance. "Tattling" on former associates in communism becomes closer in degree to informing about suspected thiefs. In both cases, those accused may actually be innocent; they are certainly so until prove guilty. The ex-communist may never have thought a truly subversive thought in his life, may have renounced communism, and have been leading a very pro-democratic life. Similarly, the suspected thief may have been...
Double Switch. In Dallas, a thief stole $290 from work clothes in a locker room, changed into a pair of stolen trousers, left the loot in his discarded pants...
...Europe considered childhood a phase to be got over as quickly as possible, a sort of malignant disease, the curing of which justified the use of any means." But before he is cured, Sholom pals around with a scampish set of Jewish Huckleberry Finns: Shmulik the Orphan, Gergeleh the Thief, and Feivel the Lip. The boys glory in three maxims: 1) "Always disobey your parents," 2) "Be sure to hate your teacher," 3) "Never fear the Lord." His death in 1916 prevented Author Aleichem from carrying his boyhood story over the threshold of manhood, but even as it stands...
...followed on the stand by four other call girls and one erstwhile madam, most of them reluctant to repeat their stories in public. The most unusual witness, however, was Richard Short, an ex-convict, thief, he-doxy and convicted pimp. Short once went to Jelke, he said, to get some customers for his fourth wife, Prostitute Pat Thompson. Mickey helpfully supplied the telephone number of one Ben Lewis, an old friend of Pat Ward's. "Mickey told us Lewis was a high roller, likely to go to $500 or more if a girl treated him right...