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...thief broke into five unlocked Business School rooms yesterday morning, and took several watches and sums of money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watches, Money Stolen From Five Unlocked Rooms in Business School | 4/22/1954 | See Source »

Henze's plot takes the old story of Manon Lescaut forward to the Paris of 1950 and turns its willful heroine into a strumpet and murderess, her brother into a pimp and thief. Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shocker in Rome | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Buried Treasure. In Paris, police arrested Thief Roger Lhomel, shipped him off to the hospital when he announced that he had swallowed his loot: a gold bracelet, a wedding ring, a gold watch band, a religious medal, a three-inch wooden crucifix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

According to Murphy, the thief has specialized in robbing College students for the past ten or 12 years, and has been in jail several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Detectives Ready to Make Arrest In Recent Larceny in Thayer Hall | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

...past the thief has committeed chains of thefts in the College, but Murphy feels that this time he was responsible only for the Thayer robbery. There have been at least two other thefts this term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Detectives Ready to Make Arrest In Recent Larceny in Thayer Hall | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

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