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...aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing for the future as he for the past, proving most malleable as he is most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

When the police brought in two dogs to help flush a trapped burglar out of a building in Baltimore, he leaped out of a second-story window, breaking both ankles. "I looked at the dogs and I looked at the pavement." he explained afterwards, "and I decided the pavement was safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four-Footed Deterrents | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Scattered Returns. In Adelaide, Australia, after failing to blow an insurance office safe, a burglar phoned police, warned of an explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Stop & Go. In Turin, Italy, when Margherita Carosso returned home and opened her bedroom closet, she found a burglar who explained soothingly, "Don't be alarmed, I made a mistake," then scooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Hardened Criminal. In New Orleans, police searched in vain for Burglar Willie Green, who had broken into a grocery, until he emerged voluntarily from a 32° refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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