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...most, Christmas is the season forgiving. But for a sizable substratum of society, it is a season for light-fingered taking. In the four weeks before Christmas, department stores suffer half their annual losses from shoplifting. Much of it is impulse stealing-the easiest to spot, because it is often done so clumsily, but the hardest to predict, because no segment of the population is immune. Only last week the Harvard Cooperative Society announced that it had caught 18 undergraduates shoplifting. Said Harvard Coop Manager John G. Morrill: "Everybody has the propensity to steal, and Harvard has its share...
Leggers & Muggers. The crooks that merchants fear most are the professionals, many of whom work for fences and steal selectively (current high-priority target: suede coats). Store detectives never cease to marvel at the professionals' ingenuity. Some have been known to take six dresses into a fitting room, emerge wearing all of them, one over the other, and march right out of the store. Others employ such traditional equipment as the "booster box"-a gift-wrapped package with a spring-loaded trap opening-or the "Harpo Marx" coat, a shapeless, voluminous outer garment that, inside, is a marvel...
...textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide. 16) an awful English pudding. 17) literally a fish dish of the same grade as semolina pudding; more likely is an abomination of "filcher", meaning in this context a hippie so degraded that he has to steal, violating the hippie ethics. 18) to jump? 19) the Penguin textbook editions; here means people who haven't read farther. The word is actually plural in the song, and is an appositive of choking smokers. 20) chanted repeatedly by a host. 21) the death of Oswald from King Lear...
...Dean Watson claims that Harvard men know not to steal when they come here," Morrill said. "He says that Harvard is filled with perfect gentlemen." "I think he's presuming a bit; everybody has the propensity to steal, and Harvard has its share of crooks who should be dealt with...
Five minutes later, at 11:40, Bob Fredo took a pass from Parrot, shot the puck off Northeastern goalie Ken Leu, and Parrot flipped in the rebound from 12 feet. With three minutes left in the period, Parrot backhanded home his second goal after a steal and perfect pass by Garrity...