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...addition to these luminaries of malefaction, readers may meet such relative unknowns as High-Finance Crook Ernest Hooley, who used part of his ill-got gains to become the patron of twelve ecclesiastical livings for parish priests in rural England, or Leopold Harris, who was so great an expert on fraud that his prison cell became an office where he scrutinized documents for the British authorities. Or there is the Portuguese Bank Note Case of the 1920s, in which a band of smooth, velvety swindlers talked the Bank of Portugal's official printers-a posh British firm-into engraving...
Elected vice-president is Susan I. Swanton '63 of Henry House; secretary and treasurer are Ann W. Nason '63 of Holmes Hall and Carland E. Crook '62 of Holmes Hall...
...aren't very ambitious to begin with, and once they get on the police force, they get a little orientation but no real training. Usually a couple of officers talk to the new man and then assign him to an older patrolman, who may be a first-class crook...
Died. Harry Frederick Comfort Crook-shank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, 68. rapier-tongued parliamentary leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1951 till his elevation to the House of Lords in 1955 a 32-year House of Commons veteran whose sardonic debating style elicited from Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell the tribute: "I never knew a man who could say such outrageous things with such charm"; of cancer; in London...
Genet's characters are intellectualizations. In Deathwatch, Green Eyes is the intellectual abstraction of a murderer, LeFranc of a petty crook, and Maurice of a thieving, confused little homosexual. And intellectualizations are not easily translated into flesh and blood. Their conflicts are worked out on a conversational plane, while the real struggles that men take part in cannot be totally represented by debate...