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...decades as a professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Convict's Dream | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...also mulled ways & means of getting the boodle, set down a sort of burglar's handbook: "Bend end of small screw driver to get between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Convict's Dream | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Snitch in Time. In Newark, N.J., a thief broke into Salesman Clinton Lewis' car and stole nine burglar alarms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...house (TIME, July 11) and Mickey knew where he could get wire recordings to prove it. Brenda went to jail largely on the say-so of another vice-squad sergeant and a handsome policewoman named Audre Davis. Then Policewoman Audre accused her friend the vice sergeant of being a burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...person in the United States," he argued, "need fear our laws against burglary unless he is a burglar or is getting ready to commit burglary. By the same token, no state need fear this treaty unless it is planning an aggressive act or has aggressive designs in its heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fraternity of Peace | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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