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...into a department store shortly before closing time without locking her bike properly, came out to find a strange man standing guard over it. "All he said was 'I'm glad you came back. I have to catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin a personal escort as she wove through dense traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Escape Machine | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...America," concluded Father Baumhart, "there is widespread acceptance among businessmen of the handful of general ethical principles which are the foundation of Judeo-Christian civilization. But between these general principles (such as 'Thou shalt not steal') and the concrete problems of the businessman (such as whether or not price-fixing is stealing from customers), a wide gap appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Ethics: Confessional | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...them, and whistling the latest music-hall tunes, Daumier turned out lithographs of arrogant aristocrats, greedy landlords, sour-faced men and nagging wives, sinister lawyers and pompous judges. In one scene, a judge says to a half-starved prisoner: "So you were hungry; that's no reason for stealing. I'm hungry too-nearly every day. But I don't steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Caricaturist Turned Painter | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Where?" flips bosomy Joyce Taylor (Atlantis, The Lost Continent), jeans tight about her hips, man's shirt open to the navel. "To the nearest motel?" But Joyce is more than a kidder; she packs a mean pistol, which she has used to hold up a gas station and steal a car. At the village drugstore, Dave separates her from her banana split, shoves her and two sinister cronies into a squad car and heads toward headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Disaster on a Low Budget | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...deadliest pot rakers of the most famous seated gathering since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope and the rest with puns: "I fold my tens and silently steal away," or, apropos of nothing important, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: One Man's Mede | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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