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THIS much Frank Heaney knows is true: the gangster George (Machine Gun) Kelly was easy to get along with and did not try to con the guards like other inmates on Alcatraz. Mr. Heaney, who is 79, regularly makes the trek back to the island to share his memories and to sell and autograph his book, ''Inside the Walls of Alcatraz.'' But now his visits are only once a month, down from nearly a dozen a month before a stroke slowed him down two years ago. The service does not announce Mr. Heaney's visits beforehand. As tourists study the damp rooms with mint-green chipped lead paint, Mr. Heaney recalls how the guards paid $10 a month for ''a bed and a bureau'' and 25 cents for a meal.