People, Dec. 11, 1933

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

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...

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