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...gone to the British sector to watch a boxing match. Then the Russians topped everything to date by manhandling and seizing Thomas P. Headen, deputy chief of A.M.G.'s Information Control Division, who had ventured too close to an unguarded part of the British-Russian line. The Communist cop and the U.S. official were soon released; it looked like an exchange of war prisoners...
After the first racketing assault on his hearing, the cop at the Clarkstown, N.Y. police station held the telephone several inches from his ear. A Russian-it sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraper-was on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen...
What woman? The woman, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina! Not only stolen-kidnaped! Listening, the cop gathered that he was being informed of an international incident. Who had taken her? Reds! They had come in a big car. They had demanded the woman! They had driven...
...solid, grey-haired woman named Mrs. Frank Goldfuss, looked out an upstairs window, saw him, called for her husband. The couple ran downstairs, backed out their car, drove around the block and intercepted the robber. "You hurt our dog," screamed Mrs. Goldfuss. "I'm going to call a cop." Fox yanked out his pistol, aimed it at her, pulled the trigger. It failed to fire. Goldfuss leaped out and jumped...
...Cop. A motorcycle policeman roared up. Fox put the end of the pistol into his mouth and fumbled at the trigger. But he succeeded only in knocking out his false teeth. As he grabbed for them, the policeman grabbed for the pistol. Fox was disarmed and arrested...