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William Hinton, superintendent of Leverett House, found that someone had tampered with the coin boxes in the public washing machines. The thief knew enough about electricity to disconnect the machines from their 220 volt line while he was working...
...screen, but James Daly was altogether too wooden as the young man whose mixed motives of pity and greed turn him into a gigolo and, eventually, a corpse. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour offered another TV version of Henri Bernstein's The Thief (Kraft TV Theater did the same play in 1952), with Paul Lukas, Diana Lynn, Mary Astor and James Deane. An old-school melodrama, The Thief tells of an idealistic young man who takes the responsibility for an older woman's momentary weakness. The play, as well as the actors, was better in its parts...
Duane is the second local dormitory thief arrested this week. The other, Joseph McHugh, was captured Sunday evening while burglarizing an M.I.T. dormitory. McHugh operated at both Harvard and M.I.T...
Promptly the FBI arrested two car thieves, charging them with murder. The accused: George Junior McCoy, 34, of Grundy, Va. and Robert Carl Parker, 21, of Washington. D.C. Later, the FBI added a third inmate to its list of suspects, another car thief named Lewis Cagle, 17, of Chattanooga...
William Blake's sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries...