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...clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds," said Justice Edmund Davies before passing sentence on the twelve Great Train Robbers before him. "It is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast greed." For their parts in the $7,369,000 robbery of the royal mails last August (most of the money has not yet been recovered), seven of the men drew 30 years apiece, only one got less than 20.* "Don't worry, Mum, I'm still young," shouted out one of the men who had received a 25-year sentence...
...difficult for him were consigned to the ecclesiastical boondocks; Maccari himself has been sent to an obscure parish in the Piemonte. Padre Pio once more hears confession without fear, is available to everyone. Once again, the tide of pilgrims has begun to swell. Would the crooks also resume their sordid trade? Padre Pio could...
Baby Want A Kiss tries to walk a delicate line between satire and psychology and falls flat on its face. Playwright James Costigan takes us behind the glamorous facade of a Hollywood couple into the sordid little bathroom of their lives and the result is almost laughable when serious and pretty unfunny when humorous...
They might love Cassius at the U.N. -but not in the newspapers. Sportswriters were still not satisfied that Champion Clay's seven-round victory over Sonny Listen in Miami two weeks ago was strictly on the up and up. "A sordid mystery," sneered one. "A malodorous mess," sniffed another. Some skeptics hinted that Listen's camp had engineered a betting coup-though Las Vegas bookmakers insisted no "smart money" had been bet on Clay. If it had, the odds would not have increased from 7-1 to 8-1 on the day of the fight...
Dodd argued that "any objective person" reading the report "would have to conclude that the accounts of massive persecution of the Buddhist religion were, at the best, vastly exaggerated, and at the worst a sordid propaganda fraud. We were told that the Diem government was guilty of such brutal religious persecution that innocent Buddhist monks were driven to commit suicide in protest. Now it turns out that the agitation was essentially political." Concludes Dodd: "What this all adds up to is that the American people have once again been grievously misinformed by some of their newspapers on a foreign situation...