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According to Irving, Edith made six visits to the bank, each time covering her dark blonde hair with a brunette wig, wearing glasses and heavy makeup and speaking very bad German-despite the fact that she is German-born. As soon as each check cleared, Irving claimed, Edith withdrew the money and "took it across the street" to another, unnamed Zurich bank, where she deposited it to await Hughes' instructions for pickup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Clifford & Edith & Howard & Helga | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...doesn't walk onstage. She insinuates herself. Rotary-drive hips, and fingers that were probably snapping out rhythms in the cradle. Overstuffed bosom beneath a Pucci dress, $450 shoulder-length brown wig, and eyelashes long enough to rake a lawn with. She coolly surveys the scene and lets fly with a sassafras falsetto: "Whoooo-eeeee! Watch out, honey! Don't you touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Or: "When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not." Or her trademark: "What you see is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're Hot, You're Hot | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...other occasions, it later developed, his costume was quite different. Last July police caught him in a stolen car. He was wearing a jacket studded with nails at the shoulders and on the lapels, and had with him a rubber mask, a woman's wig and several lengths of rope. "I belong to a religious secret society," he explained feebly. "I'm on my way to a sex orgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Hermit of Les Ecr | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Fred did not think so, but perhaps Fred was wrong. Perhaps Jackson did come to share the belief that had driven his brother to attempting to kidnap a judge. Perhaps, Jackson had arranged to have the gun and wig smuggled...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: If We Must Die | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

...Bankhead, Bette Davis and Luise Rainer in New Faces of '56. After that, he swished his way to further success in nightclubs and on television. "Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman," Jones once boasted. "When I pulled off my wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly: 'Oh, the poor dear. She's bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1971 | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

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