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...Amory over a loudspeaker, rejects society's values and affirms that the only truth is found within oneself. He tries to force his personal viewpoint on society as the absolute, being too much a moral coward to live alone with his idea. He is finally killed by a thug who wants to "be somebody" by killing someone he thinks necessary to the world. He actually kills one of its most useless citizens, the play tells...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Playgoer | 12/5/1951 | See Source »

Time Off. In San Diego, when Motorist John Fleisher held out his arm to signal, a thug ripped off his wristwatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Fellow Felons. In Newport, R.I., after Mrs. Frances Cambra complained that a thug had snatched her purse while she was playing the slot machine at a club, cops seized the machine, then went looking for the two-armed bandit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

William C. Duval '53 told Cambridge police-that the burglars were two men, about 30 years old--a clean-cut man about 5-foot-9 and a 6-foot thug. Presumably they are the same pair that milked Lowell House of $500 on Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Burglars Ransack Leverett; Student Gives Police Description | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

Still, Small Voice. In Los Angeles, a thug entered Delfin Cosio's liquor shop, took $60 and a bottle of whisky at gunpoint, returned five minutes later to deposit his loot on the counter, said: "Give me a break. I don't know what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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