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...with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like those in the annual flower-viewing season, when the public wandered among spring blossoms, careless of material treasures, Utsugi handled minor felonies by simply picking the pockets of the thieves and returning the loot unnoticed to the pockets of the victims...
Connoisseur. In St. Louis, as four holdup men were leaving the home of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Roehl with $25,000 worth of loot, one remarked politely: "You certainly have a nice place here...
...victory was marred by a bright red scar. Battling valiantly against the right, he turned his back on the left-a characteristic failing. "I agree with the aims of the Communist Party," he kept repeating, "but I differ with Communists in the methods of achieving them . . . through murder, loot and arson." This soft indictment, the iteration that "in Communism there are certain good things," was no way to lick them. Now the Communists are emerging from the election as India's No. 2 party. There were signs last week that Nehru himself had begun to see his mistake...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan assigned 20 detectives to the case. Within 48 hours he proudly called newsmen, produced most of the loot, and the robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform-peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan...
...medical profession has lost an immeasurable amount of public esteem, reverence and respect that it formerly enjoyed." The main trouble, as he saw it: the "commercialization of the profession." "Maybe," said the governor, the oldtime doctor "didn't die with an amassed fortune of land and gold and loot, but he left behind him a life that had been a blessing to mankind, an honor to his profession...