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...accused snatchers were not the most professional in the business. One, Barry Keenan, 23, of Los Angeles, a stockbroker's son, had graduated in the same high school class as Nancy Sinatra, young Frank's sister. An unemployed salesman and divorced, he had been charged with petty theft in the past. The other two were equally smalltime. Joseph Amsler, 23, an abalone fisherman from Playa del Rey, had been pinched for a liquor-law violation, mumbled, when asked if his parents could provide $50,000 bail: "I don't think they would be interested." The third...
...affluence of a personal foundry came to Capralos late. During his student days in Paris at the Grande Chaumiere, he was so poor that he filched sketching pads. Accused of the theft by an English art student, Capralos threw back the Elgin marbles: "You rich Englishmen have stolen the whole frieze of the Parthenon! How dare you protest when a poor Greek takes a sheet of your paper?" During World War II, Capralos made his own warring frieze a 135-ft. by 33-ft. monument, in plaster relief, to the Greek repulse of the Italian army in the Pindus Mountains...
...means for rooting out corruption are needed, he said, and he stressed the role of the Massachusetts Crime Commission in the fight. "The boys don't steal the way they used to; these days it takes a Certified Public Accountant just to know there's been a theft...
...HOPE'S THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer star in a spy thriller about a Soviet agent's theft of top military secrets. Color...
Aside from the large uncut diamond, termed "the center-piece of the collection" and "the largest and most perfect diamond crystal of its size in the world," the gems taken in 1962 proved to be replaceable on the open market. The theft made only a small dent in the Harvard mineralogical collection...