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Ways and Means is a fairly long-winded farce about a couple of carefree, down-at-heel professional guests and an imperturbable burglar on the Côote d'Azur. Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson and Jack Warner, in a trio of spry performances, play it to the hilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Bread & Butter Note. In New London, Conn., a burglar broke into Bulkeley Junior High School, cooked himself a meal in the home economics room, took $110 from the principal's office, chalked a note on the blackboard: "I'm sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Tipped off by an informer, West Berlin cops were waiting one night last week when a burglar broke into a junk dealer's home. They got more than an ordinary crook: once arrested, Kurt Knobloch began to talk, and what he said made the pinch, in the eyes of a top West Berlin police official, "the most important arrest made in West Berlin since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Kidnaper | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Knobloch is a veteran but inept burglar, with a record of four arrests and three convictions. He had finished one stretch in an East Berlin jail and was headed for a trial that might bring him another when he was visited by a top East German secret police bureaucrat known to him only as "Paul." Paul had a bargain to offer. If Knobloch would agree to help kidnap Dr. Walter Linse, the No. 2 man in the anti-Communist Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, he himself would be set free; if he refused, Knobloch would find himself in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Kidnaper | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Those Days. In Cleveland, a burglar cut himself breaking in a window of Kovachy Bros.' auto-accessory store, labored long and hard trying to pound open a safe that was not only unlocked but empty, finally looted the store of its only cash-a $10 bill, which he absentmindedly dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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