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They did not, in fact, when Burnice admitted in 1961 that during the more than 40 years that she had served as the bookkeeper in her father's bank she had embezzled $2,126,859.10 of their funds-more than John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Ma Barker and all her boys together stole at gunpoint from bank coffers in the '30s. Most of the money, it turned out, had gone into Burnice's unsuccessful speculations and investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Burnice Comes Home | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Thus the virtues of this Giovanni resided almost solely in the cast, despite the presence of only two genuinely operatic voices: the Don of Sean Barker and the Donna Anna of Donna Roll. Barker displayed all the necessary magnetism and menace, but without the grand air of defiance appropriate to his eventual damnation. His Champagne Aria was most exuberant, if a bit breathless; and the Serenade was one of the few instances all night of fine sotto voce singing. Roll's soprano, while raw and occasionally off-pitch, was clearly the biggest voice of all, and was used to best...

Author: By Jeffrey B. Cobb, | Title: Don Giovanni | 4/28/1966 | See Source »

...equipment through 978 franchised and 72 company-owned stores. Last week Household moved into merchandising on a major scale. It arranged a stock-swap deal to acquire City Products Corp., an Illinois conglomerate that controls 3,020 retail outlets through its Ben Franklin and T.G. & Y. variety stores, its Barker Bros, furniture chain and a food-chain supply house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit: Polonius Reversed | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Married. Lana Turner, 44, still well-knit Hollywood Sweater Girl (Love Has Many Faces); and Robert Eaton, 34, Hollywood businessman; he for the third time, she for the sixth (her others: Bandleader Artie Shaw, Restaurateur Stephen Crane, Tin Millionaire Bob Topping, Movie Tarzan Lex Barker, Rancher Fred May); in Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Died. Edward Bremer, 67, St. Paul banker and brewer who was kidnaped by the notorious Barker-Karpis gang in 1934, gained freedom 22 days later on payment of a $200,000 ransom, but had seen and heard enough despite attempts to keep him blindfolded to help the FBI track down his 15 abductors, who either died in gun battles (Ma Barker, her son Fred) or went to prison; of a heart attack; in Pompano Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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