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...stars do well indeed in the final play, Ways and Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Tonight at 8:30 | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

Insectarian. In Philadelphia, a burglar broke into a market, took 72 cans of assorted fried ants, baby bees, fried butterflies, smoked octopus, fried worms, smoked frogs' legs, roast caterpillars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Went Hathaway. In San Pedro, Calif., two days after her house was looted, Mrs. Henrietta Cheatham pulled up at a stop sign, recognized her husband's shirt on the driver of the car beside her, noted the license number, later told police how to locate long-sought Burglar George Brotsis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1958 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...sordid 1920 murder of a Manhattan pawnbroker named Gulbenkian, no kin, scared him out of ever visiting the U.S. He reputedly kept a ton and a half of gold in his London safes, presumably against a rainy day. An electrified barricade surrounded his Paris home, together with innumerable burglar alarms, watchdogs and a platoon of private guards and spies. Life with father was a perpetual war of nerves for wife Nevarte, son Nubar and daughter Rita. At 8 a.m.. Papa Gulbenkian arranged a series of staggered telephone calls so he could keep tabs on their whereabouts throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Gold Scrooge | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Higher Booty. Near Jackson, Miss., a burglar entered The Forest Hill Methodist Church, stole a safe containing 300 sermons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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