Word: kleptomaniacal
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Several volumes of "Americana" taken from Widener Library were yesterday said to be among the articles stolen by the "literary kleptomaniac' who also lifted some 43 precious documents from the state archives...
Heroine Gene Tierney is married to a cracker jack psychiatrist (Richard Conte), who never suspects that she is a kleptomaniac who can't sleep. Fearful of losing his high opinion, she goes for help to an unctuous hypnotist (José Ferrer). One night, while Svengali Ferrer is off setting up an alibi by having his gall bladder out, she wakes out of a trance to find herself a first-class murder suspect...
...Park Avenue princess (Martha Vickers), fond of a songwriting pauper (Robert Hutton), naturally pretends to be a girl of the people. Just as naturally, he first mistakes her for a schizophrenic kleptomaniac, next mistakes her be-limousined father for a sugar daddy. As anyone could predict, Boy eventually becomes so successful that at picture's end he can stand the shock of learning who Girl really is. Otto Kruger supplies his touch of suavity, Jack Carson his considerable comic talent, and Janis Paige her banjo eyes and pretty curves-but none of these attractions can save the tired...
...cussing parrots. Pubs, cafes, and even maiden ladies were demanding birds with rich vocabularies as never before, and last week Shopkeeper Palmer was offering to buy parrots on a basis of ?1 per each perfected cuss word up to 50. But only unreasoning love could account for the lepidopterological kleptomaniac who took 2,700 mounted butterflies from three Australian museums. London's Scotland Yard thinks it knows who did it but it cannot figure out the motive...
Collector's Items. In Paris, police needed six trucks to haul away the odds & ends (including some granite statues, a park bench, 139 wigs, two dozen ice skates for the left foot) amassed over 15 years by Kleptomaniac Robert Bury...