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...beginning of Radio Days a burglar picks up the phone in the midst of robbing the Marty Needleman residence and answers the questions put to him by the cheery host of Guess That Tune. With a little help from his partner, he wins a truckful of major appliances for his victims. We may imagine their despair over returning to a ransacked home. But we are privy to their nonplussed elation the next morning when the windfall lands on their doorstep. It might be said that they experienced the "miracle of radio" (as it was known in the innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dream Machine RADIO DAYS Directed and Written by Woody Allen | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...thief also took from the women two pairs of earrings and nine rings, one of which was a 16th-birthday present, worth $1000, and a student flute, worth $200. The Harvard Police do not know how the burglar got into the room, but did notice a fire door leading to a connecting suite was unlocked, according to last week's police blotter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thieves Hit Dunster, Quincy For $6200 | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Tails the Mexican Pet | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Calvin Coolidge, waiting to move into the White House after Harding's death, apprehended a cat burglar in his Willard room. He let the fellow go after extracting a promise to reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Outsize Slippers for Mr. Lincoln | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

According to police reports, one of the students--all of whom are minors--was in possesion of a burglar's tools and dangerous weapon, a five-inch knife with a handle...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Police Stop 3 Summer School Students Breaking Into U-Hall Through Grate | 7/3/1986 | See Source »

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