Word: towel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking up from the paper he was reading in the executives' washroom of his McGraw-Hill building in Manhattan, bald, white-bearded James Herbert McGraw, 72, head of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., saw two bandits, faces masked by towels, levelling pistols at his head & heart. "Hello," said he calmly. Abruptly he snatched the towel from the face of one of the bandits, barking, "Who are you? What are you doing in this building?" When the other pulled out a rope to bind him, Publisher McGraw lunged forward, grappled with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver...
Most authentic shot: Ted Hackett III wearing the white towel-scarf which Hollywood juveniles use off-stage as though it were a uniform...
...entered an elevator with a $1,349 payroll, two men held them up, made the operator take the elevator up while they escaped with the money. Last week a single robber entered the Atlantic City hotel room of Harry Glemby's brother Philip, bound his wife with a towel in the bathroom, clipped the telephone wires, walked out with jewels worth...
...Well, well, well," Frank shoved a towel through the window of his office, "have you found out why people don't get together and why the world still goes around? But snap it up now, the pool closes in five minutes...
...unsolved death of Zachary Smith Reynolds, Camel cigaret scion (TIME, July 18): agreement between the Reynolds family, his second wife Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds and his first wife Anne Cannon Reynolds, towel heiress, awarding $2,000,000 each to his two children, Libby Reynolds' son Zachary Smith Jr. and Anne Cannon Reynolds...