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John Thorndike '64, an employee of the store, pursued the thief and apprehended him with the aid of William M. Nelson III, '67, another employee...
...would bring on the open market. Within an hour the appraiser arrived in his pick-up truck, but instead of taking out his measuring instruments he uprooted the strawberry, tossed it into his truck and drove off. "Help!" cried farmer Jones. "What is the meaning of this?" The thief replied as he disappeared into the distance...
...FEET TALL. A rough-cut diamond thief (Edward G. Robinson) and a wandering British boy (Fergus McClelland) get together for some refreshing runaway adventures in modern Africa...
...years. The caper involved the Dulce of Wellington, stolen by a slick artnaper from London's National Gallery in 1961 just after the British government had spent $392,000 to buy the Goya masterpiece back from U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman. While sleuths looked high and low, the thief sent ransom notes, first demanding full value, then offering to settle for $140,000. "When the fuss has died down, the painting will return," predicted Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy. So it has, in good condition, wrapped in brown paper and left in a Birmingham railroad station...
...FEET TALL. Handsomely photographed, this African odyssey tells of a runaway British boy (Fergus McClelland) who joins forces with a diamond thief (Edward G. Robinson) and stumbles into lots of crisp, adventurous...