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...Danvers job is the second largest in a series of a dozen New England robberies which have totalled more than $3,000,000 in the last two years. The still unsolved Brink's robbery of January, 1950 ranks at the top, with a loss...
Glueck refused to comment on the possibility of a link-up between the Danver and Brink robberies, but did admit that both showed the mark of a "master-mind...
...force ace, "Sailor" Malan, who is a distant cousin of the Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year as director general of the air force. General Brink, who commanded South Africa's 1st Division in North Africa, could not stomach what had happened to his country's armed...
...holdup men seemed to have made a clean getaway in New England's biggest holdup since the $1,500,000 Brink's robbery...
Young Fingertips. Finding reason enough for their lives in the ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held...