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...nearly a year, four small boys, aged 7 to 10, led the police of Rosenberg, Texas (pop. 6,210) a merry chase. The boys stole keys from a used-car lot just for the thrill, broke innumerable light bulbs, tried to set a local dance hall on fire, scooped money off newsstands, broke into at least five stores. All in all, they were arrested a total of 21 times, but on each occasion, they were able to laugh right in the police chief's face. As the boys knew only too well, they were too young for prosecution under...
...Hope Root loved the sea. A vigorous, barrel-chested (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) Miami lawyer, Root spent his spare time in or on the water, fishing, boating and swimming. Three years ago he discovered the new sport of skin diving with an Aqua-Lung. He discovered the thrill of plunging into the dark depths without the clumsy encumbrance of a diving suit, using only a mouthpiece breathing apparatus to equalize the tremendous pressures of the ocean's silent world. Unlike Captain Cousteau, who brought the silent world on to the printed page in a 1953 bestseller (TIME...
...Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary, Nathan Leopold, 49, partner in the notorious Loeb-Leopold "thrill murder" of Bobby Franks in 1924, got word that his brother Foreman, who died this month, had cut him out of his will. Foreman, who with his family changed his last name to Lebold, left a $400,000 estate to his widow...
Captain Dick Clasby said yesterday afternoon that he considers his nullified 103-yard kickoff return against Dartmouth as "the biggest thrill of my life." Commenting on the controversial clipping penalty which wiped out the score, the Crimson tailback added that the referees "can take away the yardage, but they can't take away the thrill...
David Lewin, in an all-Mozart piano recital Sunday afternoon, did for his composer all that may be expected of intelligent and careful musicianship, conscientious preparation, and a highly competent technique. This is very much indeed. In the D-minor Fantasia the audience could not fail to thrill to the sensitively tapered phrasing of the opening arpeggi, the furious and technically accurate rendition of the contrasting scale passages near the middle, and finally the delicate yet sparkling manner in which he tossed off the final Allegro...