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...right there and then ended the efficiency of the caper that would have gone down in history as the nation's greatest jewel robbery. For the hopeless fact was that the robber who was designated as the "wheel man"-the "cop" assigned to drive off with the boodle-the excruciatingly exasperated hood with a huge fortune in his grasp-the sad simpleton upon whom everything depended-couldn't drive a 1951 Ford...
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...
...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...