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Victims of yesterday morning's Adams House incidents said that the thief had not ransacked their rooms, but had only taken valuables lying in clear view. One said that $20 had been taken from his wallet; the other reported that his watch and a billfold with $30 and a number of credit cards had been stolen...
Candlestick is built for the customer-particularly if he happens to have a fat billfold. In the section known as "the Golden Horseshoe," and selling at $500 per place for the 76-day home season, each box is equipped with private lockers, tables, telephones, and, on call, waiters (last week the waiter service was not quite ready). For San Francisco's often chilly weather, there is radiant heating under the seats...
...Best of Everyone. The snag was that after getting the best of everyone, 24 hours a day, Rothstein still felt unwanted, unloved and even uncertain. But the cure for this was in his billfold: "Whenever he had self-doubts he could count his money." To facilitate this, Rothstein carried all his bills in his pocket-until the roll grew so fat from graft and gambling that he had to put some of it in the bank...
Behind that door, black laths hung down like macabre pennants. Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...
...Tender Trap. In Chicago, Ronald E. Whitaker stole a billfold from an elderly man, sympathetically complied with the old man's plea that he return it, handed over his own billfold by mistake, wound up with a one-to-three-year prison term after the old man turned it over to police...