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...among the flora and fauna of Uruguay. Szell has kept snug on fees he collected from Jews in concentration camps. To help them escape the gas ovens, he first accepted gold-often fillings from teeth, which he obligingly pulled himself-then diamonds. The diamonds are stashed in a Manhattan safe-deposit box, watched over by Szell's brother, who, as the movie begins, is incinerated in an auto accident. Since Szell understandably does not trust any of his couriers, he must now come to the U.S. and get the diamonds himself. The couriers are tough, well-tailored guys like...
Lawyers and professional investigators continued to press a nationwide search for an authentic will. The best clues so far: a key to a safe-deposit box found among Hughes' belongings in his old Romaine Street office in Hollywood and a 1938 registered letter to the First National Bank in Houston saying he was enclosing a will. Neither discovery has produced results. America's-perhaps the world's-foremost mystery man in life, Howard Hughes may have created his biggest mystery in death...
...death, but was too ill to do so. Noah Dietrich, Hughes' former chief lieutenant, said he had seen a will, but that was back in the 1950s. Investigators began a massive dragnet search for a will, combing through Hughes' old map cases, flight bags, books and safe-deposit boxes. They looked in one box in a Hollywood Bank of America branch where Dietrich believed the will had been placed. By week's end no one had produced Hughes' last testament...
...black account" is another favorite device. The term refers to money kept in a foreign safe-deposit box and doled out as the need arises. According to one U.S. executive in Latin America, the amount of cash in the box is usually kept small-$50,000 at the most-to avoid detection by auditors, and there are no receipts, no official records. Sometimes, though, the amounts are much larger. Lockheed's auditors discovered that payments ranging up to $130,000 had been made from a safe-deposit box in Paris at the discretion of company officials. The fund...
When a federal grand jury and the Senate Watergate committee learned of the gift, Jacobsen said, he and Connally agreed that they would say the money never left Jacobsen's safe-deposit box in an Austin, Texas, bank. In fact, they both testified before the grand jury and the Senate committee that Jacobsen offered the money to Connally for him to dispense to political candidates as he saw fit, but that Connally turned him down-a story that Connally has stuck to throughout. Jacobsen told the court that it was false. Rather, said Jacobsen, Connally gave...