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...bookie joint was raided. He had never even heard of Bookmaker Carroll, said he, although Carroll's East St. Louis book used to be just around the corner from the police station. There was also the matter of some $131,419 English had locked up in a safe-deposit box. He had, he was quick to point out, paid federal income taxes on the money. Where did he get all that cash? Well, said English, it wasn't exactly his. It was left over from funds contributed by the good Democrats of St. Clair County, 111. for political...
...major setback, poured out his hurt and humiliation in a note of resignation to his "Dear Mr. President." Then he went back to Clarksburg to brood on man's infidelity to man-and to commit his thoughts to paper in a book which still rests in the Johnson safe-deposit...
Last week, beribboned and jaunty, fresh off the boat from Japan, Colonel Murray had another, smaller key. He surrendered it to questioning Customs men. It unlocked his safe-deposit box-and out tumbled a cache of more than 500 diamonds, worth $200.,000, which he had smuggled in last year. They were, he claimed, "legitimate loot." That had an unfortunate sound; he changed it to "legitimate souvenirs." When he first went to Japan, he said, "there were jewels and precious metals hidden all over the country-diamonds by the bucketful...
That Man Again. In Minneapolis, University of Minnesota students, sick of the G.I. gag "Kilroy was here," staged a mock burial, inscribed on the tombstone: "Kilroy is here." In Caldwell, N.J., National Bank officials put up a neon sign over the entrance to the safe-deposit vault. The sign: "Kilroy was here...
...confusion of the world press. In London, the Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears...