Word: thief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...had curly hair." Barber shops were combed for a sign of a curly haired boy. A long car chase in Newton finally gave the cod over to Harvard police, and no charges were pressed...
...latest flick, Southern Star, currently shooting in the wilds of Senegal. Ursula spends most of the movie jouncing around in a 1912 Rochet-Schneider trying to spring her fiancé (George Segal) from the local hoosegow where he's been tossed by her dad as a suspected jewel thief. But voyeurs need not despair: hopefully, in Ursula's next film it's back to the undressed Andress...
...HARVARD community took a second look at its University Police last week after an officer shot and wounded an escaping thief. Over-night, the benign guardians of the sign-in book became lethal protectors of law and order, and not surprisingly, the incident left the University wondering whether those cops on the corner should really be fooling with guns. While violence is always regrettable, the doubts should not go too far. Weapons are clearly essential to the effectiveness of the University Police...
...details of last week's shooting are admittedly peculiar. The use of the pistol was clearly legal, since the thief threatened the officer's life by driving the stolen bike at him. But the policeman apparently fired the shot only after the bike had passed, hitting the bike's driver in the back--which could raise some question about the officer's judgment in resorting to his pistol...
Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone...