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Kansas authorities began combing the countryside for a quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail...
...best poetry, Abraham Lincoln's speeches, and Mark Twain's best book (Huckleberry Finn). They also proved that history's greatest democracy was not going the way of democratic Athens, for the war's dead were scarcely settled in their graves when the Robber Barons took over their country. They were able to do so because practically every American intensely admired them, and hoped to be a Robber Baron himself. The result of their enterprise was to speed up the development of the continent. But in one of the most beautiful lands on earth the Barons...
...Betray Me." In 1929 an accomplished grave robber came to Egypt. Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg University, well financed by a French subsidy, dug for more than ten years in the salty soil near the ruins of Tanis. At last he found the tomb. In 1940 Pharaoh Psousennes, with all his treasure, was exposed to modern stares...
...Mortuis. . . In Manila, Judge de la Rosa played it safe, gave a six-month sentence to slippery Bank Robber Antonio San Juan, dead a month...
...time racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...