Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When skinny, 17-year-old Tommy ("Ramrod") Cook of Long Beach, Calif, decided to start a career as a holdup man, he knew just where to look for accomplices. He invited babyfaced, 17-year-old Muriel ("Pickles") Downs and 15-year-old Peggy Byrns to join him. Muriel's family were "strict" and made her go to prayer meetings twice a week, but her father had a .22-caliber target pistol and Peggy's divorced mother owned a 1935 La Fayette coup...
...proprietor of the store, a likable young man named Dominic ("Mickey") Calarco, didn't notice the pistol at first. He looked up, smiled, and asked, "May I help you?" Said Tommy: "Yeah, gimme your money. This is a holdup...
What happened to "critically wounded" Jacob Wasserman, the Manhattan jeweler shot in a holdup [TIME...
...about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson, member of an organized gang of burglars, holdup men-and possibly pirates. There was reason to believe that he was under suspicion by his fellow gangsters as an informer...
...Catch a Thief. In Dallas, after F. G. Maloney complained to the law that he and his wife had been robbed of several thousand dollars in a tourist court, police learned that Maloney, alias Curly Malone, had gotten the cash in a New Orleans holdup...