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...Robert Maier '54, members of the Massachusetts Hall basketball team, reported the theft of $19 at 10 p.m. last night, stating that they thought many other wallets had also been rified. Requirement of an athletic participation card for admission to the building led to the assumption that the culprit was a student...
...ridden King Edward III (1312-77) took a poor view of unregulated trade. To punish merchants who went on selling their wares after a fair had officially closed, Edward's Parliament passed a law under which anyone who successfully sued a black-marketeer could collect part of the culprit's fine...
...well son of a cattleman, Walker cheats on his wife (Joanne Dru) and relies on his foster brother, Ranch Foreman Burt Lancaster, to rescue him from such scrapes as getting a neighboring girl into trouble. Thinking Lancaster the culprit, the girl's vengeful brothers go gunning for him. Walker helps them on the sly so he can eliminate Lancaster as an obstacle to his schemes for embezzling the old man's cattle...
...Again. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Magistrate A. S. Mathews fined a culprit ?10 for stealing a copy of a book called I Sinned Again...
...China for more conscripts, beat the drums for a bigger effort in Korea. The U.N. Commission in Korea reported: no Red Chinese volunteers, only Red Chinese regulars in Korea. But Russia's Vishinsky brushed Peking and the U.N. witness aside, vilified MacArthur as a "maniac, the principal culprit, the evil genius," railed against the six-power resolution. With satanic effrontery, he proposed withdrawal of all "foreign forces" from Korea. Chinese Red "volunteers," he explained, could not be counted as "foreign forces...