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...addition to these luminaries of malefaction, readers may meet such relative unknowns as High-Finance Crook Ernest Hooley, who used part of his ill-got gains to become the patron of twelve ecclesiastical livings for parish priests in rural England, or Leopold Harris, who was so great an expert on fraud that his prison cell became an office where he scrutinized documents for the British authorities. Or there is the Portuguese Bank Note Case of the 1920s, in which a band of smooth, velvety swindlers talked the Bank of Portugal's official printers-a posh British firm-into engraving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedside Crime | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...Eagles spread the good cheer around, with five men breaking into double figures. Jim Hooley led the onslaught with 18 points, followed by Frank Quinn with 17, Bill Donovan and Jerry Power with 16, and Gerry Ward with...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Basketball Squad Loses to Eagles by 88-51 | 12/14/1960 | See Source »

...scored in so many entrancing ways. Donovan, with a two-hand set, and occasionally, with one of the few two-hand jump shots around, struck from the outside. Hooley and the mountainous Quinn dominated the boards. Power, Hooley, and Donovan engineered the Eagles' fast break...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Basketball Squad Loses to Eagles by 88-51 | 12/14/1960 | See Source »

Bill Donovan often leads the down-the-court charge, and besides, he is an unerring shot. Forward Jim Hooley is another high scorer, but the top point-maker this year has been sophomore Jerry Ward, who has been averaging 20 markers per game...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: High-Scoring, Undefeated B.C. Quintet Varsity Basketball Team to Encounter | 12/13/1960 | See Source »

...Connecticut romp, nearly everybody got into the scoring act. Donovan paced the Eagles with 28, followed by Hooley with 25, Ward with 18, Foley with 10, and Quinn with nine. In contract, no Crimson performer has yet reached the 20-point mark this season...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: High-Scoring, Undefeated B.C. Quintet Varsity Basketball Team to Encounter | 12/13/1960 | See Source »

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