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...Never trust a guy who smokes a pipe. They sit around and look thoughtful, but all the time they're figuring how they can steal a hot stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advice from the Deacon | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...enough to get into real trouble. Graziano begins to ricochet between a cluttered cold-water flat and a series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Sign of the Era. When Juliette was 15 the Germans deported her divorced mother and her sister to a labor camp. Left to roam the streets, Juliette fell in with a band of homeless youngsters, learned to steal by day and sleep in doorways by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wild One | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...stirred by Jean Delfau, a wealthy set designer who has come from Paris to help Papa Noris put a little theatrical glamour into his mayoralty campaign. Tamara promptly puts her overripe charms at Jean's disposal, and Hélène just as promptly decides to steal Jean from her simply for revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Set | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Medic, started a year and a half ago in an attempt to knock CBS's I Love Lucy from the No. 1 position in the ratings, will fold up its scalpels and silently steal away in August. The last Nielsen ratings found Lucy still No. 1, Medic No. 81. Both sponsors (Procter & Gamble and General Electric) failed to renew their options, and NBC plans to return to the attack on Lucy with a new series of filmed thrillers called Impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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