Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crystal Ball. In Philadelphia, after calling on a fortune teller named Madame Carr who told him that he was about to sign an important paper, Plainclothesman John Jones walked straight to police headquarters, signed an affidavit for her arrest...
...good promoter, she provided something new every year. She put out a new Heaven-Sent line of colognes (with bottles shaped like angels), dropped 500 basketed samples on pink and blue balloons from Bonwit Teller's roof. She developed a friction face wash (Beauty Grains) for clogged pores, found that "homogenized" raw silk was a good base for makeup, and made a Contour-Lift Film designed to firm up the jowls (at $5 a jar). Now & then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth...
...morning last October a mild-mannered, grey-haired little woman walked into the California Bank on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, quietly approached a teller's window, and laid a note on the counter. This done, she raised a paper bag in which she seemed to be holding a pistol, and waited patiently. The teller read the message: "This gun will talk and don't think I can't use it," and handed over $1,212 in currency...
...being held up, Mrs. Lorene McGehee, the teller, just called the bank manager, who hustled out and took Grandma's toy gun away from her. "I'm not Grandma," cried Grandma. But when the cops questioned her, she broke down...
...Right Combination. Mosler's most promising new idea is its "Snorkel Auto-Teller" for curbstone banking. A customer can drive up to the Snorkel, a gadget the size of a gas pump, do business with a clerk several feet below the sidewalk through a system of microphones, mirrors, and an elevator, without leaving...