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Three nights after the kidnaping, Raymond waited nervously in a dark alleyway near the Arc de Triomphe. Eric's father approached, carrying a satchel containing $100,000 in small bills. When he heard the password, "Keep the key," he dropped the satchel, turning just in time to catch a glimpse of Raymond as he made off. Next morning, young Eric was found, unharmed, in front of a cafe near home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: L'Affaire Peugeot | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...alleyway off Sago Lane in Singapore's Chinatown, beneath banners and scrolls and paper models of ships and planes, dozens of Chinese last week played mah-jongg by the light that gleamed from two adjoining houses. From inside the houses came a deafening cacophony of clanging cymbals, shrieking flutes and thumping drums. In the ancient Taoist tradition, the mah-jongg players had come to pay their last respects to friends and relatives who lay dying inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: A Place to Die | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops there...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Down to Earth | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...body of Larry Shelvey was found by Princeton police officers in an alleyway between the Colonial Bakery and Zinder's Store. He was taken to the Princeton Hospital where police surgeon P. C. Tan gave the boy emergency treatment...

Author: By Robert B. Semple jr., | Title: PRINCETON FOOTBALL STARS MAUL 16-YEAR-OLD YOUTH | 11/16/1957 | See Source »

...offer high price for all banned books. Do not burn them. Will you negotiate?" Hitler refused to negotiate, but Foyle got his name in the papers. Some of Foyle's publicity comes readymade: a few months ago, a tough who had been knifed in a nearby alleyway staggered into Foyle's, died on the floor of the murder mystery department. Sniffed suspicious Londoners: "Just another one of Foyle's stunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Barnum of Books | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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