Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of burglar alarm, just patented last week, has already put a crimp in the burglar business. Developed by Samuel Bagno and manufactured by the Alertronic Corp. of Long Island City, the Alertronic alarm has one or more "loudspeakers" that generate sound waves with a frequency of 19,000 cycles a sec. This is too high-pitched for normal human ears, whose upper limit is about 18,000 cycles a sec., so the office or bank protected by Alertronic seems silent to a burglar, although every cubic inch of its air is in rapid vibration...
Built for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the truck cost $40,000. has a display area of 32 ft. by 7 ft., airconditioning, an intricate burglar alarm, special wall clamps and brackets to keep pictures and sculpture from bouncing around on rough country roads. After dedication ceremonies in Fredericksburg, people started to file into the exhibit 20 at a time (admission free). Over the truck's P.A. system came 17th century harpsichord music to set the mood for the show, followed by a recorded lecture. On exhibit were sixteen 15th to 17th century Dutch and Flemish...
...with "It will have to be a very small piece, you don't have much to spare." Such exchanges continue with a regularity and plane of wit that is indeed wonderful. The reductio ad absurdum of "Ways and Means," a parasite couple of the international set who induce a burglar to rob their hostess is a pleasant cordial to end the film. Valeric Hobson and Nigel Patrick play the leads...
Dennis Port, Mass., Burglar Edward J. Clancy climbed into the chimney of the Stop & Shop store, inched his way down 30 ft. before he got wedged in too tightly to move, two hours later was extricated and arrested...
Insomniac. In Phoenix, after drilling through the door of the Parkway drugstore, a burglar passed up money and other valuables, chose three bottles of sleeping pills, disappeared into the night...