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...past. Martin started off cleverly enough. Who cared that with The Jerk he was stealing from Jerry Lewis? But then, made reckless by success, the guy ransacked the old Busby Berkeley musicals and called the forgery Pennies from Heaven. Now he's pulled off his most daring heist. He's stolen from the tough-guy movies of the '40s, intercutting scenes of himself as a private eye with scenes from some fine old films, with some fine old friends: Cagney in White Heat, Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire, Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Meat | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...save was better than Daskalakis' heist of an O'Dwyer sot at 9:32 of the second period. B.C.'s senior captain, who will have to live with the disappointment of four losses in Beanpot finals during his remarkable career on Chestnut Hill, burst in on a breakaway, deked once and back handed it to the goalie's glove side...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers Hoist Beanpot; Harvard Last | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...fleeing the bloody holdup, the Brink's bandits had literally made tracks. To begin with, there were plenty of witnesses to the blitzkrieg-style heist at Nanuet National Bank, just outside Nyack. There were also witnesses to the police Shootout near by that had led to the capture of Weather Undergrounders Katherine Boudin, 38, David Gilbert, 37, and Judith Clark, 31, as well as Accomplice Samuel Brown, 41, a career criminal. In addition, guns and getaway cars were easily traced to the names of other suspects and to the addresses of their safe houses. The houses, in turn, provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heading for the Last Roundup | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...warned Virgil to cooperate or they would shoot his wife. Grainger came, then David Harris, branch operations supervisor. The gunmen needed both to unlock the vault. Less than 20 minutes later the thieves had driven away with $3.3 million in cash, which the FBI believes is the biggest bank heist in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epic Heist in Tucson | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...entire heist may take less than an hour. Each load earns the hot oiler at least $900, minus whatever kickback the pumper demands. One energetic trucker has boasted of pocketing $50,000 in just six months of steady stealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Oil Heists | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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