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...which usually considers it undesirable to dignify Public Enemies by listing them, issued a list of ten most wanted, most dangerous criminals. Tom Dewey's Leopard, whom he had built up as No. 1, appeared only as No. 4. Ahead of him came Irving Charles Chapman, Texas bank robber, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe* bank robbers, who escaped from Alcatraz two years ago. No. 5 was Paul Cretzer, 29, another bank robber...
...contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp, and he flees in the old maid's car, taking her maid and most of her silverware with him. Moral: "A woman can do what the Devil himself can't do: make a thief of an honest...
...President Ray Dumont of the National Semi-pro Baseball Congress announced that he planned to dress his umpires next season in stripes. He explained that, since semi-pros wear all sorts of colors, "the striped uniform . . . serves as the best contrast," denied that fans' shouts of "thief" and "robber" had anything to do with the proposed change...
...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...
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...