Word: aliases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the cold corridors of Michigan's maximum-security prison at Marquette last week marched a manacled man: Harold Maurice Hummel Jr. (alias Billy the Kid, alias John Dillinger), 26, on his way to Marquette's sandstone city hall to be arraigned for the murder of a fellow...
Alias Sapo. In his tepid way, he tells himself little stories to while away the time. Or perhaps he writes them, since he keeps the stub of a pencil, sharpened at both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens...
Shakespeare is throwing this mud at Britain's Richard of Gloucester, alias "Richard Crookback," better known as Richard III. Generations of students have gasped with horror at the monstrous doings of Britain's basest king, notorious for the murder of his young nephews ("The Little Princes in the...
Wet Spell. In Albuquerque, arrested for drunkenness, Emanuel Welch confided to police that he sometimes uses an alias, supported his claim by spelling Sebastian Bogankinzenellenriinzinskiyork the same way three times.
Friend Koba. Even if bitter-memoried Tito had not made plain his dislike of Molotov, it was time for Old Stone Bottom to go. It was 50 years since he joined the Bolshevik party (as a boy of 16), and though he might now see the need for new methods...