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They did not, in fact, when Burnice admitted in 1961 that during the more than 40 years that she had served as the bookkeeper in her father's bank she had embezzled $2,126,859.10 of their funds-more than John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Ma Barker and all her boys together stole at gunpoint from bank coffers in the '30s. Most of the money, it turned out, had gone into Burnice's unsuccessful speculations and investments...
Unwise Ardor. If Javits were indeed to win the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, what impact might he have? Conservatives, mostly south of the Ma-son-Dixon line and west of the Mississippi, argue that he would hurt the party. Actually, while he would no doubt hurt their feelings, it is hard to see how he could help but help. "His liberality bothers me," said Denver County G.O.P. Chairman John Wogan Jr., but he felt impelled to add: "Since the purpose is to win, we might have to take him." "Let's face it," said New Mexico's Republican Gubernatorial Candidate...
...teen-ager who goes to church twice on Sundays, doesn't smoke, drink or dance, addresses his elders as "sir" and "ma'am," and never even says "shucks" in the presence of ladies, Jim Ryun inspires an awful lot of antagonism. New Zealand's Peter Snell, who was then the world record holder for the mile, explained why on the eve of last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating...
Died. Dan Moody, 72, Governor of Texas from 1927 to 1931 who at 33, as a reform-minded state attorney general, defeated Incumbent Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, a housewife like Lurleen Wallace merely fronting for her husband, impeached Governor James Ferguson, after which Moody served two terms cleaning up the mess in the Statehouse and starting construction of Texas' top-rated highway system, then retired to a highly successful law practice; of heart disease; in Austin...
...Italians are scoundrels!" Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. "Not all," an Italian noblewoman slyly replied, "but a good part (non tutti, ma buona parte...