Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over a dense honeysuckle hedge into the yard. At noon, having dug out 3 ft. of dirt and a foot of quicklime, James stepped back with a sick sigh. A pair of undertakers, their pants legs rolled up, got down into the grave and lifted out a blue plastic bag. Inside was the fully clothed body of Bobby Greenlease. He had been shot once through the head, from behind...
...Star, saying: "M. Will meet you in Chicago Sunday. G." At Kansas City's Commerce Trust Co., Arthur B. Eisenhower, executive vice president of the bank and President Eisenhower's brother, set 80 clerks to work assembling the 40.000 pieces of currency. Stuffed into an Army duffel bag, the money weighed...
Receipt Delayed. Robert Ledterman and Norbert O'Neill, business associates of Bobby's father, made two abortive efforts to deliver the ransom to Hall. The first time his instructions were too confused to follow. Next, the cash-filled duffel bag was dropped off in a rural spot, but Hall telephoned to say that he had not found it. Ledterman and O'Neill went back and retrieved...
Thirty-five minutes later, Ledterman and O'Neill left the duffel bag at the end of a highway bridge in a heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
With travels East and West, books in his kitchen, and reams of brilliance in a shopping bag, Nock leads an active, many-sided life, ordered amid the helter-skelter. Choosing the scholar's monastic life, he has in his erratic, diverse way filled an essentially lonely pattern with lifelong friendships and warmth. For his active sense of humor extends beyond Little Audrey and limericks; it takes in his sealskin hat, his omnipresent umbrella, indeed, Arthur Darby Nock himself...