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...rane had vexed Judge Gßrane for years. He had run away from college, wasted his money, refused to go to work. It was the last straw when Arthur rifled his father's desk-and then rammed the family car into a tree in making his getaway. Judge Gérane had Arthur committed to an asylum as a psychopath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gallic Snake Pit | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...violent killer who breaks out of the pen, and of a small-town sheriff's fierce efforts to recapture him without having to kill him or let the townspeople string him up. Since the desperado is almost more anxious to bump off the sheriff than to make a getaway, the situation is fairly knotty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...Getaway. In Arlington, Va., the judge let Haywood L. Miller off with a light $15 fine for reckless driving and fleeing from highway cops at 70 m.p.h., after Miller explained: "I was out with another man's wife, and I thought that's who was chasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...rest of the scenario sounded as if it had been written by Mack Sennett. At the main gate, three startled marine guards jumped for safety as the getaway car shot through at 60 m.p.h. They hauled out their .45s, but the pieces were empty; the clips were in their belts (base regulations to avoid accidents). The police telephoned ahead to set up a roadblock. They were seconds too late; the green Oldsmobile got away. A few minutes later, a patrolman answered a fire alarm on a back road five miles from the base. It was the Oldsmobile, abandoned and burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Scenario by Sennett | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...holdup men seemed to have made a clean getaway in New England's biggest holdup since the $1,500,000 Brink's robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Scenario by Sennett | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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