Word: ransoming
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Seven daring but inept Tokyo thugs planned a kidnaping that would rock the nation. Their intended victim: Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, the former Princess Suga. She was to be held for $138,888, the biggest ransom in Japanese history. Disguised as a meter reader, one plotter entered and cased the princess' house. The gang moved in for the snatch three times, only to have something go awry. Before they could make a fourth try, the police were tipped off and collared the gang, building an airtight case with full confessions. Yet last spring the accused were convicted...
...Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror. For Jean-Luc's killer was a brazen publicity seeker, who taunted the cops and the newspapers with a barrage of telephone calls, special-delivery letters and threats of another child murder unless he was immediately paid $100,000 in advance ransom...
...Weiner, a fading poet-critic who remembers peevishly the time when his picture appeared on the dust jacket of New Critics, 1944. There is Holly Levine, who teaches creative writing but keeps a copy of Playboy hidden under the Kenyan Reviews. Composing a review: "He hissed softly, Trilling . . . Leavis . . . Ransom . . . Tate . . . Kazin . . . Chase . . .' and saw them, the Fathers, as though from a vast amphitheater, smiling at him, and he smiled at them." Finally, there is Morroe Ri-off, not quite "in" because he is an organizer and speechwriter for a Jewish fund-raising organization. (By no co incidence, Author...
...avaricious Spaniards, gold was simply rare and therefore of monetary value; when a nation had enough, it became rich. The Indians were astonished at this attitude, and surmised that the white men had some physical disease that could only be cured by gold. The Inca Emperor Atahualpa had to ransom himself from the swinish Spanish Adventurer Pizarro with a roomful of the stuff-13,000 lbs., all told. (For his pains, Atahualpa was strangled.) Indifferently, the Spaniards melted art into bullion; their pillage increased Europe's gold supply by 20%, part of which went to finance the ill-fated...
...full of Givenchy originals. While falling in love on the job, Hepburn and Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and Director Richard Quine should have taken a hint from Holden, who writes his movie, takes a long sober look at what he has wrought, and burns...