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...good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
Died. Henri Verne, 68, longtime director of Paris' famed Louvre, who proved that the Mona Lisa, which was recovered after the 1911 theft, was Leonardo Da Vinci's and not one faked by the thief; in Paris. Verne directed the renovation of the museum during the '305, planned the evacuation of the art treasures during World...
...Theft of about $60 from first-floor residents of Radcliffe's 20 Walker St. was discovered yesterday morning when girls and the housekeeper, Miss Edith Annin, reported missing wallets and pocketbook money. Girls claimed that the thief must have entered the house during the dinner hour Thursday...
...into the Bay area, he gave San Franciscans a shocking story under a black, front-page headline: FREDDIE FRANCISCO-EMBEZZLER-THIEF. Who was Freddie Francisco? Why, said Tarantino, he was a man of eight aliases, with a 20-year criminal record studded with seven arrests (forgery, robbery, grand larceny, theft of Government property) and four convictions for theft, forgery, and fraud. A four-time loser, he was on parole from the federal prison at Atlanta, and was an "accomplished shakedown artist." What was Hearst going to do about...
...Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf and Bough speedily closed...