Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disappearing Act. In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream...
...Angeles, Frank Stranahan, big-muscled British amateur golf champion, slipped out of bed, selected a No. 3 iron, drew back for a long approach shot, and thus persuaded a burglar to stand still and be good till the police came
...Memoriam. In Pittsburgh, Burglar Frank Reymer told police how he made sure of quiet spots to work in: he studiously read newspaper obituaries, looted houses while the bereaved were off to the funeral...
Doesn't Pay. In Santa Barbara, Calif., burglars made off with $100 from a shoe store, left behind $300 worth of burglar tools...
Cruel & Unusual. In Providence, Inventor Vincent de Cesaris was working on a burglar alarm which would emit the recorded shrieks of Cinemactress Lauren Bacall and Chanteuse Hildegarde...