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...School, they confiscated an old Chinese figured-silk dressing gown. Muttered one detective: "You never know what these symbols mean. Better have them translated." At St. Peter's Priory, they interrupted Anglican Missionary Trevor Huddleston in the middle of a Scripture lesson and expropriated 44 documents. The prize loot: Father Huddleston's correspondence with South African Author Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: A Way with Transgressors | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...blow all the loot we got for books, whatta we gonna use when we meet those cha-cha babes?" asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE BECOME HAHARVUD MAN, FIND SPEECH STILL FREE | 10/4/1955 | See Source »

...I.R.A. had lost its loot, but it had gained worldwide publicity for its cause. It had made a fool of the British Army, which sheepishly admitted that at Aborfield barracks "the only weapon the guards had between them was one pick handle and a four-foot piece of wood, [because] no arms were issued for guard duty." In London, Prime Minister Eden had a 45-minute special session with Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial Staff. The British were more worried than they cared to admit by the resurgence of the I.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Gunmen | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...because she thinks she will find a spark of romance behind it all. But Preacher Mitchum, who thinks sex and painted women are an abomination, really wants to get his switchblade knife on Shelley's two small children, since they are the only ones who know where the loot is hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...into the bottom of the Endeavour and the hearts of every man aboard. Ordinarily, 18th century seamen panicked fast. Most of them were too superstitious to learn how to swim; they felt it would only prolong the agony of drowning. The only rule of shipwreck and death was to loot the liquor supplies and drink oneself insensible in the short time left to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ulysses from Yorkshire | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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