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This is certainly true of Boston's Brink's robbers. Far from being a gang of master criminals--as was first supposed--the thieves turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of petty, two-bit bumblers who hung out in Scolley Square, pulling off little jobs and dreaming of the big heist. It seemed poetic justice that these ordinary crooks were the ones to hit the prestigious armored-car company for a million and a half dollars. It was a daring robbery, no one got hurt, and the crooks very nearly got away with...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...North End back in 1950. That one was concocted by 11 men, seven of whom slipped into the Brink's warehouse one evening wearing pea-coats and Halloween masks and made off with the loot. At the time, the Brink's gang wasn't looked on as a bunch of affable fellows who just happened to stumble onto the crime of the century. In fact, a lot of people were convinced that the gang had wide underworld connections. Even six years after the robbery, when the case finally came to trial, the judge had difficulty empanelling jurors, most of whom...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...Defense was the key," guard Bob Allen said after the victory. "We kept pressuring them all game and gradually wore them down, until they made a bunch of turnovers," he added...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Cagers Down Dartmouth; Hooft Leads All Scorers | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...been kind of a rotten year for film. I think we tend not to notice that because the most interesting movies playing around Cambridge are always old ones. But unless you live in New York, your Christmas movie diet may consist of a bunch of first and second-run movies that are mostly third-rate...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Christmas Movies | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...Bunch of Fish...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Yardling Swimmers Awesome; Raikula, Maximoff Lead Group | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

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