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Reports were broadcast last night that members of the Yale Record, in retaliation for the theft of the Bulldog were plotting to kidnap Hanfstaengl on his way to Cambridge.Cut Courtesy of the Boston Post.Nazi Official In 1909 and Today...
...dark shape hunched through a side door of the Cathedral of St. Bavon. Ghent and its canals slept on. Next morning it woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve...
Asked if his nose was insured against damage or less, the idol of a million maidens replied. "Yeah, it's insured all right Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw to that long ago. Do you know, they even insured it against theft. Can you feature anyone ever being able to keep my nose under cover?" queried Durante with a fetching smile...
...Toronto last week the Appeal Court of Ontario held Brother Martin Insull extraditable on two of the three charges of theft for which the U. S. is asking his return, locked him in the city jail to await the arrival of Chicago detectives...
...dognapping at New Haven, suspected by the Yale possessors of Handsome Dan, II, bulldog mascot, to be the work of Harvard wretches attempting reprisal for the theft of the Lampoon's Ibis has, in the argot of crime, a number of angles. First of all, the Harvards went and lifted a section of the historic Yale fence from Pach's photographic studio. Then the Ibis disappeared. Now Yale's favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes...