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...stolen jewelry had been cached in Buffalo, the FBI recovered part of the loot, while New York City cops gathered information that led to the arrest of four men and a wom an, members of a ring of international hotel thieves. Victim of the mid-January theft from her Savoy-Hilton Hotel suite in Manhattan: Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of the President and wife of Actor Peter Lawford...
...first Lord High Executioner who commanded the guns in 200 executions, more often than not personally delivering the pistol coup de grâce to each victim. Born in Milwaukee, Marks was arrested 32 times in the U.S., jailed in Wisconsin, Ohio and California (vagrancy, assault, draft dodging, theft, rape), joined Castro's forces in December 1957 and was made a captain. The U.S. canceled his citizenship with alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach the man they called "the butcher." Last May, Marks fled Cuba in a boat, made it to Florida and disappeared into Mexico...
...18th century citizen wrote memoirs much as his 20th century descendant writes income tax returns-as a matter of course, and with considerable imagination. Author Mossiker has made clever use of these circumstances in retelling the story of the famed diamond necklace theft that threw France into an uproar during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The reader is invited to discover the truth of the affair-something never established beyond doubt-from a crosscutting of contradictory memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous. The puzzle is a good one, although the passages selected...
...seemed to be the key to the affair. The cardinal was one of her lovers-and so was almost every other man mentioned in the story except Louis XVI, who had trouble with sex. She had spent her childhood in rags, and at the time of the necklace theft was spending money with wild ostentation. But there were holes in the cardinal's story, which was that the countess had persuaded another lover to forge notes in the Queen's name and sign her name to the contract. The conspirators, it appeared, had even hired a prostitute...
Ever since he became a civilian, Eatherly has been in and out of hospitals and in and out of trouble. Back home in Texas, he was picked up a couple of times for forgery. Then he was arrested for theft and sent to a VA hospital in Waco for treatment. When he got out, he tried robbing post offices and breaking into a drive-in grocery. Always, his war record got him off and he was sent back to the hospital for further treatment. But this fall the ex-pilot walked out of the Waco hospital once more...