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...captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola...
Their sinister game, said G-Man Hoover, was snitching important national defense secrets and transmitting them to a "foreign power." Short-wave radio messages, courier service via Clipper planes, code messages in secret ink, intricate financing of conspiracies-they used them all. Their clearing house: the Little Casino...
Sample Costelloism: he groans that his best girl has run away with a barber, when he gets a telegram saying, "Am taking the Clipper to Hawaii...
From a transatlantic Clipper when it landed in Queens one morning last week LIFE Photographer David Scherman and FORTUNE Writer Charles J. V. Murphy, hustled to the office of LIFE Managing Editor John Billings. On his desk slight, boyish Photographer Scherman deposited: one tube of tooth paste, one tube of shaving cream, two rolls of surgical gauze. He looked like the cat that had just swallowed a whole cage of canaries...
Blonde, British-born Cinemactress Lilian Harvey, 34, onetime bright star of German films, hobbled off the Atlantic Clipper on crutches, rattling like a busy bar glass with outsize jewels. She couldn't take any money to speak of out of Europe, but on her neck and hands she wore $100,000 worth of diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, topazes...