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Bags and Bullets. William's father refused to give his son the more than $600,000 in securities that he was supposedly keeping for him in a duffel bag stashed in a large basement vault at the Thoresens' North Shore mansion. Other duffels containing Mother Thoresen's share and more than $1,000,000 worth of stocks and bonds were earmarked for William's younger brother Richard. William got what he considered his share by stealing all the bags and refusing to return any of them until his father agreed not to press larceny charges...
...tomes into a bag seemed a clue. If the titles did not exactly tell a tale, they hinted at one. Steele, ever the mild-mannered, wild blond-haired, slight-of-limb, mightily-muscled, bespectacled young hawk, tucked his new bought copies of Deliverance and On the Road into his duffel and skittered through the traffic to the ski room in Wigglesworth. In a few moments, he and coach Peter Carter would be headed to the airport with their skis...
THERE is a man in this South Jersey farmhouse. He is more remembered than real, his presence captured in random memorabilia-a plastic model of his F-105 fighter plane poised on a living-room shelf, a duffel bag of uniforms at the top of the stairs, a portrait by his wife hung in their bedroom. There are less direct reminders too: a grease-splattered map of Viet Nam on a kitchen wall; a dog-eared volume of an encyclopedia spread open on a table-the subject is Viet...
...obviously wanted money, but they were also after the store's merchandise-arms and ammunition. As they held their guns on the dozen or so customers, a high school student named Daniel Martinez wandered in unnoticed and saw one robber stuffing dozens of guns into a duffel bag. As they worked, the men addressed one another by numbers-1, 2, 3, 4. Martinez quickly sidled out the door...
...Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920s and '30s, when he earned the first two of his five Navy Crosses. In World War II he saved Guadalcanal's Henderson...