Word: robber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, Hooton found nine features characteristic of robbers-such things as attached ear lobes, heavy beards, diffused pigment in the iris. In a group of 414 robbers, six had none of these characteristics at all, no robber had all nine, and only one had as many as seven. But more than half had two or three of the features, which was a significantly higher incidence than in other criminal classes or in law-abiding people...
...Jesse James, the Outlaw and its sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...
Cinema tributes to historical celebrities are often ungratefully received. Last November, descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had 17 children, growled because Suez failed to show that their progenitor had married. Last week, after a Hollywood preview of Jesse James, Miss Jo Frances James, not a bank robber but a Los Angeles bank executive, said: "About the only connection it had with fact was that there was once a man named James and he did ride a horse...
...tycoon was once a hero of romantic fiction. Of late he has figured more often as the villain in more realistic pieces: such works as Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, Oscar Lewis' The Big Four, Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families. Last week a novel with good prospects of popularity-Agnes Sligh Turnbull's Remember the End (Macmillan, $2.50)-might well make readers wonder whether even popular romancers have begun to look asquint at success stories...
Died. Pat Crowe, 69, famed ex-train robber, kidnapper and jewel thief; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1900 Crowe helped kidnap 15-year-old Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (now president of Cudahy Packing Co.) in Omaha, Neb. When he was apprehended five years later, he charged Cudahy with engineering the plot himself. The jury acquitted him. In 1929 the Bertillon Bureau of the Buffalo police checked the fingerprints of a suicide, identified him as Crowe. Same day Pat Crowe, then reformed, walked vehemently into Manhattan's police headquarters to deny his death...