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...Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week. Elfego Baca was little known outside New Mexico, yet he left a saga rivaling Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: Good Man of the Badlands | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

James Cagney forsakes the city gangster to become an Oklahoma badman. The change isn't too convincing, but Cagney manages to shoot, mutilate, and generally manhandle other badmen in spite of the change in roles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom they chivalrously adopt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 30, 1940 | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Slim Curtiss started his second game of the year and had the Huskies hand cuffed until the big sixth inning when five bits and four runs sent him to the showers. Most of the blows, however, were of the cheap variety, and the Badmen fielded in a rather half-hearted fashion behind him. Charley Brackett came in and set down the visitors with but one hit in three and one third innings...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen Beat Huskies 6 to 4 in Dull Game; Face Boston University Today | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...called the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. To the F.B.I. Mr. Kurd's description of his customers sounded exactly like Al Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. and James Dalhover, notorious midwest bank robbers, who liked to boast that John Dillinger was only a "creampuff" bandit. These diminutive badmen (all three between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 6 in. tall) escaped from a Greenfield, Ind. jail on Oct. 11, 1936, left a trail that grew cold near Bridgeport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Customers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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