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...high point was the weight lifting. Just as the match got under way one night, four of Castro's best weight lifters coolly walked off the stage of a Kingston theater where the competition was held and sprinted into a waiting getaway car driven by members of Jose Miro Cardona's anti-Castro Revolutionary Council. Several days later, the four and their coach, who had also slipped away, were flown to Miami, where they asked asylum. Said one: "We were just tired of being involved in the stupid struggle that has destroyed Cuba...
...ambushed two payroll clerks and a guard in a corridor of Libby, McNeill & Libby's Chicago plant and robbed them of $20,318. As they fled, one of the bandits gunned down a guard. Within 48 hours, police had rounded up Crump and four other Negroes, including two getaway car drivers. One of the accused, Hudson Tillman, fingered Crump as the murderer, and Crump confessed. He retracted his confession at his trial, but was found guilty and sentenced to death. Tillman, because he turned state's evidence, was sentenced to 17 years in prison, is up for parole...
...parked cars, once were shot at by a blowzy landlady while making a 4 a.m. getaway without paying for their pad. But Williams was a fastidious hobohemian who sent his laundry home to mother and was regularly bailed out of total penury by $10 bills in letters from his grandmother. While in California, Tennessee got a telegram announcing that he had won the New York contest and a prize of $100. "I remember," says Parrott, "that he had a handful of letters from agents asking to handle his writing and he took them and went 'eeny, meeny, miney...
...their motives are sorted by a crisis, as light is sorted by a prism, and each is shown in his true colors. The journalist, determined to escape at all costs, does not scruple to seduce the farmer's pretty teen-age daughter (Cordula Trantow), involve her in his getaway, and then leave her behind to face the anger of the authorities. He justifies his crime as an act of war. But the baker, who never wanted the war, refuses to beg the moral question it has raised, refuses to help himself if he has to harm the girl. "Better...
Assisted by a menagerie of muggs who are even dumber than he is. Bugsy heists a Liberty ship from the mothball fleet in the Hudson River and sails it to Boston-that tiny brain figures as how the Liberty ship will come in handy for the getaway, but it forgets to figure as how nobody in the gang can operate the overgrown...