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...reign of the Renos lasted only three years. When local sheriffs proved unable to catch them, the victimized express company called in Allan Pinkerton, head of a small Chicago detective agency that was already using such new methods as infiltrating bandit gangs and keeping an elaborate file of criminal information. Soon the Pinkertons had all the outlaw Renos behind bars. While three of them were awaiting trial, a mob of vigilantes strung them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Seldom Slept | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Pinkertons discovered a plot to assassinate Lincoln as he passed through Baltimore on the way to his inaugural; they persuaded the President to reroute his trip. During the Civil War, Allan Pinkerton became chief of the first U.S. Secret Service, and slipped through the Southern lines to send back reports of troop movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Seldom Slept | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Chicago and Milwaukee. Texas Governor Allan Shivers (who hopes to replace Administration Stalwart Tom Connally in the U.S. Senate) was waiting in a five-gallon hat to welcome his visitors. Fifty thousand shirt-sleeved citizens cheered as the MacArthurs were driven into the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: A Delightful Trip | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Robert Shaw Oliver Harding '52 of Rumson, New Jersey, and Winthrop House will manage next year's club, and Allan Gifford Barry, Jr. '53 of Milwaukee and Kirkland House was named yesterday as winner of the sophomore managerial competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Byrne Heads Lacrosse Team | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

...Huskies tied it up in the fifth, also with two out. Sheldon singled, Connolly beat out are infield hit, Allan walked, and catcher Don Daley rescued two runs with a hard drive that bounded off Kev Reilly's leg into center field. And in the following inning Northeastern made it 4 to 3 when (again with two out) Red Kelly followed Fran Pineau's single with a slice down the right field line that went for three bases. Kelly was thrown out, Walt Greeley to Cavanaugh to Wade, trying to stretch...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Nine Trips Northeastern, 6-4, on Last Inning Rally | 5/24/1951 | See Source »

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