1950s: When housewife Anne Heston is caught shoplifting the implications are horrifying. 1950s society is merciless. When the store detective gives her the choice of chastisement or the police, she reluctantly agrees to the former. Stoically, she suffers a sound spanking, followed by a dozen strokes of a whippy cane. That is the last time that she will go shoplifting. (SP81)