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Robert ("Barney") Baker, liar, thief, union bullyboy and hash-house voluptuary, plopped his 284 Ibs. into a red leather chair facing the McClellan committee. For the next two days Teamsters' Organizer Baker answered questions while the heat from overhead television lamps sent sweat from his pomaded hair down his neck into a wilted white collar that flapped outside his tentlike coat. His lawyers had urged him to take the Fifth Amendment. But Baker decided to clown his way through a performance aimed at concealing a grimly important fact: Barney Baker is just the sort of specimen used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoffa's Funny Friend | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...When he turned into the stretch at Pimlico's horse park. Calumet's dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern horselaugh.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...spans the last 20 years of U.S. operatic production with a repertory drawn from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus such lesser-known names as Vittorio Giannini (The Taming of the Shrew) and Mark Bucci (Tale for a Deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera by Americans | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...close and down the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Resurrectionist | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Magnet. In Chicago, Car Thief James Reynolds led police on a wild chase that ended when he smashed into two police cars in front of the city's central police building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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