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...just not our year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs and gold cigarette case, a gift from King George V, turned up in the Scotland Yard mailbag after his public appeals to the thief's "sportsmanship...
London papers carried an appeal from Jockey Gordon Richards to a thief, name unknown. Preoccupied with his fast-approaching accolade of knighthood, Sir Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money...
Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...
Success did not bring happiness. One of Cardano's sons became a thief, the other was executed for poisoning his wife. Cardano was jailed as a heretic for a while, but argued his way free. Death, when it came to him at 75, one day in 1576, found a quiet old scholar, living on a pope's pension in Rome. The old gambler had long since told himself: "The greatest advantage in gambling comes from not playing...
...tempts fate by recreating the setting of his fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the fade-out with the hero promising to await the parole of his love, a reformed jewel thief. Charles Boyer, however, is debonair on a tight-rope, though he delivers even the silliest lines with a straight face...