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...have a suspect in mind, and all we have to do is find him," Murphy said. "All police are on the lookout for him." He added that the thief was probably "laying low now," and would start operating again in a short time...

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

Hubert E. Hocutt '57, a Thayer porter, has already identified the thief, and the police are sure they have the right person in mind...

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

...scene is a tawdry section of Dickensian London. The characters are dregs of the town, led by an enterpriser named Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, who has managed to organize beggary and make it pay, and one Macheath, thief and trollopmonger. ("Sloppy Sadie was discovered/ With a knife-wound up her thigh/ And Macheath strolls down on Dock Street/ Looking dreamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Beggar in Manhattan | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Kopliner, the founder of the system, said, "College police captains will have forms which will be filled out with a description of a thief or suspect." These forms will then be sent to all the colleges participating, he continued. A central office, to be located at one of the colleges, will handle all correspondence and coordinate material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police System Linking Ivy Colleges Will Commence Operations April 5 | 3/20/1954 | See Source »

...written by Lolita, the fiery divorcee who organized and led the armed assault on Congress (TIME, March 8), and they serve as a sort of battle hymn for the fanatic Puerto Rican Nationalist Party that also staged the 1950 assault on Blair House. Lolita, police discovered, is a convicted thief and forger who has spent much of her adult life in prison. Last week, as she and her friends were indicted on ten counts of assault (maximum sentence: 125 years), she seemed likely to spend some of her future there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Aftermath | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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