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...Russian-born master of petty larceny who gleefully boasted of paying $8,000 a year in fines, court costs and lawyers' fees, was arrested a record 121 times in Cleveland alone, once being nabbed with his fingers in the pockets of a police chief, another time with the wallet of a reporter covering his trial, but alas, spent his last years in retirement and on relief after arthritis robbed him of his touch; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...down, and stood up waving a revolver at Sinatra and Foss. Then came an amateur touch. Risking life imprisonment, or death in the gas chamber if he should kill the boy, and obviously planning a ransom play that would involve thousands, the kidnaper began by searching Sinatra's wallet; he found only...
...present government initiated an extensive and largely successful campaign to gain international credit by drawing more of the lucrative American tourist trade. The nation's rich folk culture became its greatest asset. European and American markets consumed Haitian primitive art by the shipload, and over a hundred thousand wallet-loose tourists ranged the Haitian hills annually...
...seems to have had no large-scale effect. Despite statistics to the contrary, the belief that property values inevitably fall when Negroes move into a neighborhood scares many whites who otherwise champion civil rights. In their own minds, at least, the choice is between their idealism and their wallet-and in the showdown, idealism often loses...
...that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...