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...member of the light-fingered league in the I.R.T. was Journal Editor Vermont Connecticut Royster, a Raleigh, N.C., boy despite the Yankee twang to his name. To Royster, the loss of his credit cards, shopping lists and drugstore prescriptions, not to mention $100 "secreted in the back of our wallet against such grave emergencies as running out of expense-account money in San Antonio or St. Paul." turned out to have a leaven of unexpected value. "I use all kinds of incidents that happen to me when I'm groping around for a way to make a point," said...
...supposed health inspector, which the robber had left behind in the bank; handwriting experts determined that the writing on the back of the card was Hirasawa's. The painter never denied that he once had the card, but claimed that it had been stolen from him when his wallet was pickpocketed shortly before the robbery...
...Nassau itself, the vacationer with a well-lined wallet can get away from teeming tourists, beach bums, surly service and bad food for $60 to $70 per couple per day at Huntington Hartford's somewhat Hollywoodish Ocean Club on Paradise Island (long called by a less idyllic name: Hog Island) or at Lyford Cay (pronounced key). Lyford Cay is a club, founded five years ago, where a couple (if found acceptable) may rent one of the 50 guest bedrooms ($56 a day) in the clubhouse or a two-bedroom cottage ($140 a day) like those occupied by President Kennedy...
...home, Larrazábal received a steady stream of visitors, among them several of Venezuela's top Communists. It had been quite a welcome-except for one small thing. Somewhere along the way, one of his admirers had lifted Larrazábal's wallet, containing...
Worst of all, the battered Vietnamese troops showed little interest in pursuing the Reds. Instead, they sloshed through the paddyfields, picking up their casualties-68 dead and 100 wounded-and poking through the downed helicopters. On the cabin floor of one of the choppers lay the wallet of a dead U.S. adviser-open to a picture of his wife and child. In all, three U.S. advisers-Captain Good, Sergeant William Deal of Mays Landing, N.J., and Specialist 4 Donald Braman of Radcliff, Ky.-were killed in the ambush, and six more wounded. The dead brought to 56 the number...