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Miracle in Milan. Italian Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica's fantasy about a goodhearted youth in a wicked world (TIME...
Residents of the outside world are inclined to look upon the citizens of New York's Westchester County as the mink, martini & money set, with hardly a petty thief in a trainload. Last week George A. Williams, the New York Central Railroad's station agent at Chappaqua in northern Westchester, shattered that illusion. Agent Williams had made a painful discovery: he was losing as much as $12 a week from the "honor system" cash box on his newspaper stand. Williams bored a hole in the ceiling above the newsstand, poked the lens of a camera through, and took...
Miracle in Milan. Italian Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica's funny, exhilarating fantasy about a goodhearted youth in a wicked world (TIME...
...1870s. When a drunken cowboy boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about as bad. One morning, on a bet, a lady known as Prairie Rose walked down its main street in the buff, waving a six-gun in each hand to shoot out any eye that peeked. Thanks...
Miracle in Milan. Italian Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica's funny, exhilarating fantasy about a goodhearted youth in a wicked world (TIME...