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Major Operation. In Rochester, Minn, police finally caught up with the man who dressed in a surgeon's gown, visited the hospital floors of the Kahler Hotel, told a patient to roll over, took $374 from his wallet and assured the victim: "Your back looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Helping Hands. In Atlanta, unable to tuck in his shirttail because his arm was in a cast, Ralph Adams asked a boy to help him, later discovered that his wallet with $13 was missing. In Denver, Bus Driver Otis C. Trueblood left his bus to help a blind passenger across the street, returned to find that three other passengers had left with his change container...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...holdup men started back to their car, the Aga called them back, reminded them they had not taken his wallet, and handed it over. It contained about $600. As they left, the bandits said: "Soyez braves et laissez nous partir [Be good sports and let us get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Soyez Braves | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Long Shot. In Philadelphia, several days, after Bernard Goodis had lost a full ($32) wallet, he got it back empty in the mail, with a note: "I put your money on a horse; if it pays off I will return your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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