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...hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof car was not quite the thing for the pacific, democratic King of the Belgians. It was given to Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein, who six years ago mysteriously dropped from the washroom of his airplane while flying over the English Channel...
...bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...
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...
...directors' meeting of New York City's BMT (subway) in the Chase National Bank building, Herbert Bayard Swope (New York World) was trapped for 48 minutes in a stalled elevator. At his office in the Heckscher Building a few hours later Mr. Swope was locked in the washroom, rattled the doorknob until a secretary...
...entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus van der Lubbe, according to his confession...