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...Like Robin Hood's men, his army would strike swiftly in small groups-kidnaping some purse-proud landlord here, killing a sheriff's man there-and fade elusively into mountain caves, vineyards and wheatfields. In seven years Giuliano's men had killed 79 national carabinieri, 25 local policemen, 40 civilians. They had collected more than $1,000,000 in ransoms from 30 kidnapings. Like Robin Hood's men they were said to rob only the rich & powerful. Half in hero worship and half in fear, the local peasants clamped their lips tight and kept their faces...
Died. Salvatore Giuliano, 27, famed Sicilian bandit, a Robin Hood to many a peasant and schoolboy, public enemy No. 1 to Italy's police; trapped by carabinieri gunfire; in Castelvetrano, Sicily (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Recently he found 14 mentally deficient children, wards of the city, tied with ropes around their necks in a firetrap farmhouse. The children were removed to a state school and to foster homes. Last month, when Selby learned that Philadelphia's summer music center, Robin Hood Dell, was close to bankruptcy, he raised $56,000 in 22 days...
Easygoing Lloyd Mangrum, who never lets his golf interfere with his good humor, kept right on smiling all through the go-hole Palm Beach Round Robin.* On the final hole, Mangrum had every reason to grin. He saved himself putting troubles by laying his approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field...
Other shouts drowned out Randolph when he said, "Back the professor comes after 17 years, with his rotten advice, trying to lure yet another generation along the wrong path." Union President Robin Day rang the bell for silence, but Randolph soon brought another uproar by saying, "It may be just a joke for the professor, this third-class Socrates,* [but he] is corrupting, infecting and polluting the good relations between Britain...