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...Robber's Mite. In Detroit, Norbert Schroll, protesting to a gunman who had lifted $56.10 from his wallet that he was on his way to church, got back $1.10 and a growl: "That ought to be enough for the collection plate...
...This would appear to be damning, but can we not say charitably in this season of love that the previous record of fault was a wild oat carelessly sown and repented? After all, how many beneficent builders of the nation's libraries, hospitals, and universities have buried their "robber baron" beginnings under a flood of gifts that is a mere trickle when compared to Claus' munificence over the centuries...
...shoe-polish factory. "No words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...
...hand that plunges the latest rubber dagger into the heart of Hollywood belongs to no neophyte; Author Carson won the Academy Award in 1937 for coscripting A Star Is Born. But his novel has a chance for life only while Franklin P. Silversmith, his egomaniacal robber baron, struts over its sets...
WHEN the police pounced on Willie Sutton last winter, they found in his hideout a book entitled How to Think Ahead in Chess. In this way, some 8,000,000 U.S. chess players learned that Bank Robber Sutton was a member of their cold-eyed fraternity. They were not especially surprised. As devotees of one of the oldest and most intellectually satisfying games ever invented, they assume that chess appeals to every thinking man, whether he uses his talents to crack safes or split atoms. But most of these thinking men, from Einstein to Humphrey Bogart, are Patzers-a German...