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After a solid week of blazing frantic headlines, Boston police discovered that they had nothing new to tell reporters working on the fantastic $1,20,000 Brink's stick-up. The head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau summoned reporters into his office, unhappily broke the fact that there was no news. The police were stymied. But he did have a parting word: the psychological effect of such a sum of money on the robbers would be too great on at least one of them. "Some day if his mind doesn't crack he may walk in here and tell...
...dampish, cold evening. Around supper time, a passerby noticed a green Ford truck coasting down a North End hill; at the bottom the truck swung sharply into the Brink's Incorporated garage. There was nothing unusual in this. Trucks customarily went in and out, day and night. But this one had no ordinary cargo: in the rear were six armed, masked...
...Upstairs Brink's employees were dragging heavy canvas bags into the vaults. It was six-thirty, and the five Brink's men were in a hurry to get home to supper. Suddenly one stopped short, threw up his hands; the other four, all armed, whirled around and did likewise. Standing around them were six medium-sized men, all wearing pea jackets, chauffeur's caps, rubbers on their shoes, and grotesque, old-manish, halloween masks over their heads. Each Brink's man found a 38 trained...
...security and comfort, snares a conventionally religious Roman Catholic; their life is shallow but unshaken. The other girl (Viveca Lindfors), serious and independent-minded, rushes into an intense love affair with a bitter, harshly unsentimental young writer who, when she becomes pregnant, refuses to marry her. She, on the brink of suicide, responds to some inner voice; he, finally on the brink of despair, returns...
Soul on a Balance Sheet. The story centers around a problem common to many a company: What happens when the top man dies? Avery Bullard is a driving, domineering boss who has pulled a small family-owned furniture company from the brink of bankruptcy and built it into the giant Tredway Corp., one of the biggest in the industry. He has done it with boundless energy, and at the expense of his marriage. Bullard is a believable if not always admirable tycoon; he lives "as if ... his soul would be measured on a balance sheet where there was no credit...