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...spokesman for Gargoyle, the College's humor magazine, which by rumor is implicated in the theft, merely pointed out that this is Ibis-mating time. "The Lampoon can keep the broom," he said. "It belongs to the University anyway...
...over his lawn. A few nights later, egg was smeared on the windshield and hood of Bowman's car, bottles were smashed against his house, and rocks were thrown through open windows onto his living-room floor. Bowman's new insurance agent cancelled his auto, home, business theft and damage policies...
...theft was so brazen that Agatha Christie herself would most likely have dismissed it as too farfetched even for Hercule Poirot to solve. For one thing, the Goya portrait of the first Duke of Wellington was just about the most-talked-about painting in Britain. It had made big headlines earlier in the summer, when U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought it for a whopping $392,000 from the Duke and Duchess of Leeds. Indignant cries went up about national treasures leaving the country, and a private foundation and Her Majesty's government raised...
Contagious Theft. So sensational a theft would be enough to give any museum director the jitters, but it was only the latest of a series of baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...
...government could hardly be expected to pay ransom-the most logical motive for most of the other robberies. At week's end, Scotland Yard was leaning to the theory that it was the work of some ingenious prankster with a highly dramatic sense of history. After all, the theft took place just 50 years to the day after a superpatriotic Italian workman named Vincenzo Perugia repatriated the Mono, Lisa for a time by sneaking it out of the Louvre...