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DIED. Allen Lockerman, 70, former FBI special agent who took part in the slaying of Bank Robber John Dillinger; of cancer; in Atlanta. Lockerman, an agent at the bureau's Chicago office during the 1930s, also worked on the cases of such celebrated gangsters as Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and Pretty Boy Floyd...
Though the manifesto did not say so outright, it was clear that its authors considered the Polish Communist Party to be the usurper and the Soviet Union the robber. Demanding the restoration of "sovereignty and democracy," the manifesto called for "freedom of belief, thought, speech, information, assembly and work." It insisted specifically on the right to strike, on free trade unions, abolition of censorship and complete reform of the electoral system...
Christopher Andersen's "The Name Game" [Sept. 26] is plain obnoxious. He should note that "plain" Patricias include two Academy Award actresses (Neal and Duke-Astin), a Cabinet member (Harris) and a bank robber (Hearst). Andersen better get his first-name vibes down pat before he publishes them...
...developed on 20 Dodger farm teams. Rickey spent his final years calculating compound interest. Some players whom he sold for $150,000 are now unemployed. Historically, you did not make millions playing ball. You made millions by owning a ball club. I recall no consistent campaign against the ancient robber barons of sport, except in the Daily Worker, which had a limited following...
...When two robbers broke into the Straight Way Iron and Metal Co. in St. Louis, the firm's president, Louis Adelstein, pulled out a gun and started shooting. He hit one of them in the buttock. The other robber grabbed Adelstein's gun and shot him to death...