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...crime. Said the Laborite Daily Mirror: "His crime was coldblooded, calculated and . . . damnably hard ... to forgive . . . Those who are protesting against the curiosity as to where he is and what he is doing now, are protesting too much. He cannot expect the rights of privacy . . . accorded to a common crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: GONE | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...meantime, an uncanny and still unexplained occurrence took place. Alfred Gagnon, a Rhode Island crook, known to police the nation over as a "congenital liar," announced one day that he knew the three planners of the Brink's hold-up. To Massachusetts authorities, he was still a liar. But the Rhode Island Attorney General believed his story, insisted that police here interrogate Gagnon. One of the three masterminds, Gagnon maintained, was a roadhouse proprietor named Carlton O'Brien. Massachusetts officials still scoffed at Gagnon's story. Fifty-six hours later, they found O'Brien--riddled with bullets. The other...

Author: By Philip M. Cronoin, | Title: The Great Robbery | 12/17/1952 | See Source »

...enough that a scalper, a common crook charges eight dollars for end-zone seats, but the HAA charges $4.80, the same price that they charge a man for a seat high on the fifty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE TICKETS? | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Martin Kane and the Martin Kane he plays on radio (Sun. 4:30 p.m., NBC). "On radio I usually pack a gun, and my relation with the cops is snarling and antagonistic. On TV, to get a gun, I usually have to take it away by force from some crook, and I'm such a pal of the cops I play pinochle with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Only One Murder | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...best of it and be a good wife to Chester. As she watches him fight and connive his way to political power, she is disgusted, fascinated, finally enlisted. But she is still helplessly in love with Jim. Whenever that selfish, arrogant, incoherent gentleman reappears, he has only to crook his finger or whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheerful Protestant | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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