Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moving mines with brains," Navy men call the mosquitoes. They are built to dart at and through enemy fleets, loose torpedoes at surface warships, make a quick getaway (if they are lucky). Submarine chasers, lighter than destroyers, carry depth charges instead of torpedoes...
...dissolute, giddy Dick Gallogly, a student at Oglethorpe (Hearst-admired) University, had a hand in killing a drugstore cashier. Dick Gallogly drove the getaway car. Another student fired the shots, confessed that he and his partner had robbed and killed "for the thrill." After two mistrials, Dick pleaded guilty, and along with rich George ("Junie") Harsh of Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last...
...Chicago caught his successor in No. 4 position: Joseph Paul Cretzer, a mustached punkaroo who has been popping in & out of western jails since 1927. Arrested with him in a dreary Chicago flat was his wife, Edna May ("Teddy") Cretzer, who pinked a police-man during a getaway last June...
...over NBC-Blue which dramatizes true-life hair raisers. Last week one scheduled tale-teller was ex-Convicf Pat Reed, a counterfeiter who finished his five-year stretch in Alcatraz last October. Pat Reed was to say: 1) that Convicts Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole had made a clean getaway from Alcatraz in 1937, had not drowned, as the G-men reported; and 2) that a mass escape is now being planned, involving the seizure of a strategic control tower...
...waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade to a Loyalist port...