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Credit Rating. In Central Falls, R.I., when an irate burglar found no money in John Marks's store, he left a hastily scribbled note: "What! Are you bankrupt...
From San Francisco to San Diego, thousands of Californians, shaken as though by a giant hand, jumped from their beds, felt the floor move eerily under their bare feet, heard an unearthly jangle of church bells, burglar alarms and shattering window glass at 4:52 a.m. They learned that they had felt the waves of a major earthquake, centering near the little mountain town of Tehachapi, Calif, (pop. 1,685), 75 miles north of Los Angeles...
...This is getting monotonous," said Douglas Fairbanks Jr., after being robbed by a London burglar for the third time in a row. Last week, another celebrity joined in Fairbanks' protest at the wave of burglaries sweeping Britain. Humorist Sir Alan P. Herbert, onetime M.P., whose sly gibes at British bumbling (e.g., its divorce laws) have sometimes changed the law of the land, wrote in the Sunday Times...
...burgled . . ., values were no matter, and you were hanged, even if you took a penny or saucepan only. 'Putting in fear' was the important, unforgivable thing . . ." Nowadays in Britain, continued Herbert, "there is growing up, I feel, a notion that it is not cricket to hurt a burglar, though he may do anything...
...days later, as if to justify A.P. Herbert's words, a respectable meat merchant of Watford was haled into court for "the unlawful and malicious wounding" of a burglar whom he had shot as the man crept into his bedroom at 4:30 a.m. one morning in February. The Watford judge forgave the merchant the crime on the grounds that he had probably shot "in panic," and dismissed him with a $60 fine "for costs...