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History for Support. Will the paintings be found? History is full of successful art thefts. A Louvre workman named Vincenzo Peruggia carted away the $1,000,000 Mona Lisa in broad daylight by stripping it from its frame and tucking it under his shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found...
Meanwhile ... In Monza, Italy, Virginio Bonfanti, arrested as a theft suspect while watching a Western in a movie house, insisted on staying to see the end of the movie, returned to see the film again when released on bail...
...Zanuck and his good friend, Chanteuse Juliette Greco, were at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain's Prince Juan Carlos handled a sailboat off Cannes; and a $215,000 jewel theft last week from the Cap-d'Antibes villa of a British textile millionaire proved the season a social success...
Birrell spent the night in a one-man cell after supping on beans, rice and manioc flour, a far cry from the gourmet's cuisine that is his normal fare. Next morning he admitted the false-entry charges, then folded. Said Robbery and Theft Division Chief Fernando Ribeiro: "He was a broken man, broken, broken, broken." Debonairly dressed, but with sweaty brow and tremulous lips, Birrell cried: "I don't care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial...
...chaotic years between 1943 and 1946 in Italy. Although political criminals make up no more than 2% of the amnestied, they include the "Red Devil" Moranino (TIME, April 30, 1956), who had taken refuge behind the Iron Curtain, and two of the men involved in the Communist wartime theft of the fabled gold of Dongo...