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Somehow, the incredulous police surmised, Long had managed to commit murder, automobile theft and possibly abduction under the very noses of the FBI. Portlanders gasped with dismay and wondered how it could have happened. The taciturn men of the FBI offered only an embarrassed, partial explanation-they had seen Long drive off with the carpenter, feared they would be spotted if they followed them into the wide-open countryside, left Long uncovered from midnight...
...years he loafed, and did a little writing in a style that seemed to derive from Gertrude Stein and an old grad's 25th-anniversary recollections of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Sample: "Nothing to do but to watch the thread that destiny works which taints the theft of the glass from the mind that shakes the hour coiled up in remembrances toasted on grills of blue...
...them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
Unfinished Business. In Grimsby, England, Arthur Hotham admitted the theft of two diamond rings, explained to police that he had only been trying to raise enough money to complete a four-year, round-the-world drinking spree on which he had already spent his entire $62,000 inheritance...
...third event reported yesterday morning was the theft of a set of Slazeager, Bobby Locke golf clubs in a canvas bag, stolen from an auto parked near Lowell House. The owner of the car was graduate student Alexander Hood. He valued...