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...fairest link in the Daisy Chain (the prettiest sophomores chosen each year by the seniors), on her return from Europe. How has this incomparable green-eyed beauty defeated the fates that have battered them? Agog, the seven watch Lakey land with 17 trunks and suitcases crammed with clothes, art loot-and a stubby "baroness," her constant companion. Slowly these green girls (some mothers by now) come to understand that Lakey, the Madonna of the Smoking Room, is a Lesbian. She has defeated man by becoming one. Then, so help us all, they ask each other: will Lakey "look down...
...such wise old bluebottles as Commander George Hatherill, 65, the Yard's dean of sleuths, who speaks eight languages and has solved 17 murders, Yard men investigating the Great Buckinghamshire Train Robbery succeeded in rounding up nine suspects, recovered $761,367 of the $7,000,000 loot. Also on hand were Ernest Millen, boss of the Flying Squad, alias the Heavy Mob, whose 100-odd sleuths know more about the underworld than Dante; and the Terrible Twins, top Detectives Tom Butler and Peter Vibart, who have cracked many a big case together. Yet, so far at least, the gang...
...Bank of America branch at toy gun point for $4,000, picked up her kids and strolled away. She was arrested down the street. Ludicrous as some of these amateurs' efforts are, they do not amuse the cops. Growls one Los Angeles veteran: "When you take loot, you've lost your amateur standing...
...Manhattan firm warn its employees to guard against outbreaks of office thievery, highlighting the petty-crime wave that has been plaguing office buildings from coast to coast. It would seem that few targets appear more attractive than a big-city tower of commerce: lots of victims, lots of loot, with floor after anonymous floor piled up like layer cake. Trouble is, a hard-working secretary too often finds her take-home pay going home in somebody else's pocket...
...policemen and Secret Service agents after a riotous struggle, the President retreated to his office shorn of at least two possessions, a handkerchief and a tie clasp. But next day the two Indonesian students who had grabbed the souvenirs did their part for U.S.-Indonesian relations by returning their loot to the President...