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...robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...

Author: By Sarah M. Wood, | Title: Coyle's Kind of Friend Nobody Needs | 8/17/1973 | See Source »

Much of the police skepticism vanished when the boy's mother received his letter and two phone calls, apparently from one of the kidnapers. "At first I thought it might be a stupid joke," she said, "but then I understood it was serious." To prove that the kidnaping was not a hoax, the caller said he would send the mother one of her son's fingers. Grandfather Getty, meanwhile, said that he would not pay a ransom. Although he sees his grandson infrequently and is not particularly close to him, Getty said he loves him nonetheless. Yet love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Following the Plot | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...walk through the free bars set up by the Kansas City Royals management reveals the number of hangers-on. It seems that the necessary background to be a reporter, manager, coach, director of player personnel, general manager, or owner is to be white, a drunk, and a little too stupid to run a bowling alley...

Author: By Richard Williams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Kansas City, Host of 1973 All Stars, Woos Visitors With Gaudy Extras | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, who did not attend the cocktail meeting, recalls the President's telling him recently on a flight aboard Air Force One: "People can say what they want about me, but one thing they can't say. Stupid I'm not. If I had caught any of these people involved with these goings-on, I'd have fired their asses the hell out of there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: A Case of Pneumonia and Confrontation | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

Died. Lon Chancy Jr., 67, son of Hollywood's greatest movie monster and something of a real horror in his own right; in San Clemente, Calif. Chaney, originally a character actor, created the role of the Wolf Man. But among his finest performances were Lennie, the clumsy, stupid giant in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1940), and the arthritic marshal in High Noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1973 | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

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