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Lloyd was really Ma Barker's only failure. She could barely read or write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken physician to slash her favorite Freddie's fingers in a vain effort to alter his fingerprints...
Riddled with Slugs. Ma had her lover riddled with slugs and dumped into Webster Lake, Minn., because she thought he had tipped off the cops to one of their hideouts. She had George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
Herman was the first of the Barkers to go. He got his in 1927, the day after a stickup in Newton, Kans. His body was found in the weeds on the outskirts of Wichita. Ma and Freddie were next, shot down after a blazing FBI siege at Oklawaha, Fla. in 1935, a year after they, Doc and Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis pulled off the $200,000 kidnaping of St. Paul Banker Edward Bremer...
...State Department publishes its own confidential beginners' guide. Sample information: a tiny coffee cup is a "demi-tasse"; a Queen, in informal conversation, may be called "ma'am," but never "madam"; only severants call a duke "your grace," to a diplomat a duke is just "Duke...
What surprised oldtimers as much as the ambitious total was the content of the projected films. The studio which, before Schary, had rarely put into its pictures anything more controversial than Lassie and Ma Hardy's apple pies, was now courting social themes: Intruder in the Dust (about the Negro problem); Border Incident (about Mexican laborers who enter the U.S. illegally); an antitotalitarian story; a script about an American Indian (Robert Taylor) trying to adapt himself to modern society...