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...should have been elementary, but it did not turn out that way. Just a short stroll from 221B Baker Street, London, where Sherlock Holmes once dwelt, a bold gang broke through the floor of a closed handbag shop, dug a 40-ft. tunnel, and cut through two feet of concrete into a vault containing about 1,000 safe-deposit boxes in Lloyds Bank at 185 Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson...
...Manhattan hooker is no wistful Lili Marlene swinging a sad handbag under the street light. She is a feral and formidable bird of prey-as West Germany's ex-Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 55, discovered at 2:30 one morning last week. Outside the Plaza Hotel just off Fifth Avenue, he was accosted by three women in a yellow car. One of them got out and suggested the possibility of deepening their relationship. "I took the whole thing from the ironic side," says Strauss. But the lady took the whole thing from another side, light-fingered his wallet...
...did?to the extent of an Army captain named Clyde W. Jennings of Lynchburg, Va., a handbag salesman in civilian life. Arie Beall gave them a big bang-up wedding in Pine Bluff, and they settled down in New York City's Forest Hills, known Before Martha as the site of the national tennis championship matches. But Clyde was on the road a good deal, the marriage failed, and they were divorced after eleven years. Their one child, Jay, is now a 23-year-old second lieutenant in the Tank Corps...
Cynthia Kaye of the Canadian Broadcasting Company asks a question. She has a cigarette holder. false eyelashes, a handbag, heels, red hair, and a beartrap mind...
Toothbrush Holder. Truman Capote couldn't care less. He has carried a handbag for years. "I don't see how people get along without some sort of little satchel," he says. "Mine's really a medical bag," he explains. "When people ask me what's in it I say I'm a pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush...