Word: robber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was when the bank robber was the prince of professional criminals. But nowadays, it seems, the rankest amateurs can knock over a bank-and a remarkable number of them are trying it. In 1932, the bank-heisting heyday of John Dillinger and his ilk, there were only 606 bank robberies in the U.S. Last year the FBI reported a record number of 1,250, and the pace is even faster...
...Millionairess, Shaw's ode to free enterprise, stars Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing as the robber baroness. Westport, Conn.; Mineola, N.Y. (two weeks); Millburn, N.J. (two weeks...
...feed his tapeworm, Capannelle long ago was driven to a career of crime. In Big Deal on Madonna Street, he became a notorious icebox robber. In Fiasco, a mildly amusing sequel to that uproarious comedy of criminal errors, the tapeworm is bigger than ever, and poor Capannelle has been forced to seek state support for a dependent he cannot declare. According to the script, he frequently strolls into a fancy restaurant, gums his way through an eight-course dinner, tsks at the check, turns out his pockets, toddles off to prison and a month of free meals...
...confession was extracted from him by torture in a brutal nonstop interrogation; later, the painter's two sons-in-law claimed that he was playing cards with them at the time of the robbery. Only two of the 40 eyewitnesses of the crime positively identified Hirasawa as the robber-and both were increasingly unsure as the trial wore on. The only clue pointing to Hirasawa was the calling card of the supposed health inspector, which the robber had left behind in the bank; handwriting experts determined that the writing on the back of the card was Hirasawa...
...focus attention on his case, Hirasawa's supporters arranged for an exhibition of 50 of the 480 tempera paintings that he has turned out in his 15 years in the death house. Hirasawa's backers have also circulated copies of the original composite newspaper drawing of the robber in hopes of turning up new suspects...