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...Kansas City, Mo., eight policemen charged up to the fourth floor of the Jackson County Courthouse when a burglar alarm was set off in the locked room housing top-secret documents of the Truman Administration. They closed in on the culprit: Harry S. Truman, who was still fumbling with his keys. Said the ex-President: "I thought I knew how these things worked, but I guess...
...sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been robbed! Our jewels and silver are missing!" It did not take the Baron de Roquette-Buisson long to unmask the culprit. Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican...
...hour and the half hour, the demand shoots violently upward-sometimes as much as 30% during a five-minute period. As puzzled as any of his colleagues, Water Commissioner George J. Van Dorp of Toledo, Ohio studied his charts, maps and figures and set out to find the culprit...
...search ended a few minutes later when Coolidge noticed the phrase "Made in Japan" stenciled on one of the potsherds. The culprit escaped...
...audience than it embarrassed. Although not so funny as Mr. Roberts, Stalag 17 has an added element of melodrama. Tension arises when the prisoners' sabotage and escape plots fail with crushing regularity, making it apparent that one amongst them is a German informer. Their efforts to discover the culprit (they had a better word for him) provide grim and gripping moments between the horseplay...