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Once the thieves were inside, the valuables in the private strongboxes were theirs for the taking. The thieves ignored personal papers and discarded jewelry that they apparently considered to be inferior. Included in the haul was a collection of Goya prints owned by Jaime de Mora y Aragon, brother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium. De Mora's first estimate of his losses: $640,000. "I am ruined," said Felici Cultrera, an Italian who lost $250,000 in jewels and who was quick to offer a $100,000 reward...
DIED. Louis Aragon, 85, engaged and engaging rebel, homme des lettres and uncrowned laureate of French Communism; in Paris. A Dadaist and co-founder in 1919 of surrealism, Aragon was a decorated hero of two World Wars, revered especially for the ringing patriotism of his 1940s Resistance poems. Slim and elegant, he uncorked his rhetorical gifts irrepressibly: in art criticism, in labyrinthine, sometimes brilliant novels (The Bells of Basel, Holy Week), in often romantic poetry, but most vigorously-and to some incongruously-in essays, books and political activism championing Stalin...
...Armada or Katherine of Aragon, by Garett Mattingly...
...rabbit sleuths, were overrun by spades-people. For 18 months Thomas pondered the problem, buying three copies of Masquerade and throwing two away when his wife complained of puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object whose shadow on that day, March 21, would point to the buried treasure...
...lived, Thomas let his dog out for a run. The dog gave him a leg up on his search by discovering a stone in the park inscribed with a passage from Psalm 104: "The earth is full of thy riches." Near by was a cross that memorialized Catherine of Aragon...