Word: robbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no attempt at escape. Instead, the mutineers (led by August Doak, a kidnaper and reportedly a former member of Detroit's notorious Purple Gang, and William Dickens, a robber and alumnus of Sing Sing) settled down with cards and dominoes, chocolates, crackers and coffee (from a secretly hoarded supply), and worried about how the Yankees were doing. Through an open window, Ringleader Dickens presented the rioters' demands. "We're not asking for no hotel," he said. But the convicts wanted a full investigation of prison food and the prisoners' complaints of brutal treatment. Fearful...
...notable converts: Author Clare Boothe Luce, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Broadway Stage Designer Jo Mielziner, Motor Scion Henry Ford II. Recently, he has been giving instruction to the wife of a diplomat and to Screen Star Virginia Mayo. He has converted thousands of unknown people, including a hard-boiled bank robber. Says he: "I do not keep count. If I did, I might lose my power...
Pigskin Parade. In Mount Vernon, Wash., police nabbed Robber George Brodeur, who happily told them: "I'm glad you got me. I'm cold, I'm hungry, and I want to get back to McNeil Island [federal penitentiary] in time for spring football practice...
Three weeks ago, Arnold Schuster, 24, was going about his uneventful life as a clerk in his father's gents' furnishings store in Brooklyn. Fame touched him when, riding a subway, he spotted Bank Robber Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the nation's most wanted criminal, on an opposite seat. Schuster's tip led police to capture Willie (TIME, March 3). Then, when the cops tried to hog the credit, he hired a lawyer to establish his claim to a rumored reward...
...Robber Baron. In Los Angeles, two service stations complained that they had been held up by a masked man who arrived in a chauffeur-driven limousine, completed each job with a command to his driver: "Home, James...