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...career, however, began haltingly-as a youth in Ontario, Canada, he was repeatedly arrested for housebreaking and petty crimes, was thrice hustled off to reform schools. But three years ago in Montreal, he discovered that it was just as easy to steal a fortune-he coolly invaded the home of an aged gold-mine heiress, pushed her in a bathroom, carried off $75,000 worth of jewels...
...face of small-arms fire from U.S. editorial pages, the Army retreated in lumber-footed embarrassment last week. It had blundered, the Army admitted, in dishing up a fortnight ago the warmed-over, spiced-up story of pre-Pearl Harbor spying for Russia by Japanese and German Communists in Japan (TIME, Feb. 21). Most of all, it had blundered in charging, without documentation, that leftish Journalists Agnes Smedley and Guenther Stein were actually Russian spies...
Charlie had become a top man in a Pyramid Friendship Club, a money snowballing craze which last week was sweeping across the country as the chain-letter game did 14 years ago. He was not the only man to make a fast buck. Another Detroiter got a bushel basket full of money in one evening, and gave away five-dollar bills as mementoes of the stirring occasion. People in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and dozens of other U.S. cities and towns hit the jackpot too and found themselves in a delirious state of sudden solvency...
...Ezra and Nehemiah, more than two thousand years ago, the Jews had had their Knesset Hagdola (Great Assembly). The members of its soth Century successor decided also to call it the Knesset. But what should they call themselves? Should they use the ancient word ish (man)? A spokesman for the orthodox Jews objected: "Let's leave that alone until we restore our past glories." They finally chose the word haver, which is colloquial Hebrew...
Three weeks ago, Chile's wide-awake President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla announced that his government welcomed Harry Truman's plan. He began holding daily cabinet sessions on the subject, and told Under Secretary of Economy and Commerce Raul Fernandez to draw up a brochure for presentation to the State Department early in March. It will list the industries Chile hopes to establish, specify which parts of the country are best suited to each, and how much of what type of capital each will require...