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...Whitewash & Tar. For years the most feared bandit in all Orgosolo has been a dark-eyed ruffian named Gian Battista Liandru, who turned outlaw some 32 years ago when he became bored with sheepherding at the age of 17. In time Liandru's forays became as legendary in the Sardinian hills as those of Jesse James in Missouri. Local law officers credited him and his band with more crimes than they could ever have found time to commit, but they could never find him to press the charges. Then, three years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn...
...parish priest slapped whitewash on the fearful roster, and the villagers clamped their jaws shut and tried to forget it. But five months later the man named first on the list was shot to death in the woods. A shepherd and a woman followed him to their graves soon afterward. Then, in July 1950, the police caught up with Outlaw Liandru and clapped him into jail...
Fairy Tales & a Bullet. But the code of omertà is not repealed with a bandit's capture. The Liandru band still lurked in the mountains, and the list still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree...
...only issue was whether the Crimson could keep its shutout. It did, registering Harvard's first whitewash since the 1947 team stopped Holy Cross...
...sooner was Snyder's whitewash report published than three quiescent Treasury skeletons began to rattle again. ¶ Daniel Bolich, 52, assistant internal revenue commissioner and No. 2 man in the tax collections hierarchy until he retired last November because of "poor health," was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury. The charge: criminal evasion of income taxes. Bolich (rhymes with toe kick) was under fire last April from the House subcommittee investigating irregularities in the BIR (TIME, April 14). ¶Fred H. Altmeyer, 39, suspended deputy collector of internal revenue in Pittsburgh, was indicted by a federal grand jury...