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Easy Come. An officer of the Riggs National Bank, where Powell kept an account and a safe-deposit box, testified that from 1945 through 1953 Powell deposited $218,630-nearly three times as much as his total federal salary, which he listed as his only income on his tax returns...
...idea that it was time to get the banks out of mausoleums," explains Architect Louis Skidmore. In a radical departure from bank design, the safe-deposit vault (built of steel, set in granite, with a 30-ton door) will be on the main floor, in full view (with a spotlight on it at night). Another feature: a penthouse for executive offices and dining room. Like the Lever Building, the air-conditioned bank's windows will be sealed to keep out dust and grime. Says Skidmore: "We're trying to make the bank more human...
...readers what the U.S. is really like. "It is horrifying," wrote Champion, who had set foot on U.S. shores for the first time just five days before, "to find everyone [in New York] suffering from war and atom phobia in their most advanced forms." Correspondent Champion found bombproof safe-deposit boxes "strictly for dollars ... no humans need apply," a Broadway "populated with sex-mad morons," and "one advertisement everywhere: Blood donors wanted. High cash payments given on the spot." (Champion admitted later that "everywhere" was actually only in small classified...
Collector's Item Ralph Kennedy, 69, a New York salesman, hoards his golf score cards the way other men collect stamps. Stacked in his safe-deposit box are cards from 2,999 courses that he has played. Last week, playing badly ("My score was high"), but pleased as punch, nonetheless, Kennedy brought his total to 3,000 and got a gem of a collector's item: the score card of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (see above). Kennedy figures that "3,000 different courses is a world record. I don't think it will ever...
...piled up. Although Ed was born in poverty and had been a modestly paid public servant most of his life, Chicago was certain that he was a millionaire-perhaps two or three times over. Nobody had forgotten that Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson left $1,500,000 stuffed in his safe-deposit boxes, and it was hard to believe that onetime Sewer Engineer Kelly had not enjoyed similar opportunity...