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First they fed him nine baked bananas at a meal. Then they tried oxalic acid. Finally, Jones dipped a piece of sponge in some chloroform, formed a cone with a towel and stuck it on Rice's nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of the Banana Case | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...great San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the Palace (Singer Enrico Caruso fled from the hotel with a towel wrapped around his neck and clutching an autographed picture of Teddy Roosevelt), but a new 600-room, $8,000,000 Palace was quickly built. Most notable feature: the Garden Court dining room, with its domed glass ceiling, marble pillars and crystal chandeliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sheraton Adds a Link | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...pending business. He talked about neither reclamation nor whisky and he talked for four hours. ("What is he talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw in the towel, and at 10:51 the Senate adjourned and the Congress faced the people to give, by November, an account of its-and Eisenhower's-stewardship of the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: To the People | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...other hand, police, who first neglected to seal his apartment, later found therein: a marijuana cigarette, a red heroin capsule, two hypo needles (one taped above a closet door), a blood-splotched towel and a white nylon girdle embroidered with pink flowers. In the past 18 months, it turned out, young Thorne had checked in 24 times at a cheap hotel, always alone, usually under false names but only twice with luggage. He had not lived at home since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Tragedy of Monty Thorne | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...smooth!" says the first of them (Shawn Smith), and Quinn begins to rumba toward a sofa, gently oscillating her pelvic region with a towel. "Don't press your luck," warns the second (Mary Ellen Kay), but it is not his luck that Anthony presses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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