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...developing and enlarging them himself. His F 1.3 lens is the fastest used, excepting only the cinema's F 1.4. His little Contax special cost him $225 (the lens alone $170), a telephoto attachment to catch long-distance candid shots $80 more. He has a right angle telescope-finder to snap people while they think he is snapping someone else...
Crime-of-the-Week, issue of Nov. 14, was not solved by Private Detective Noel Scaffa, diamond-finder extraordinary, but by Lieut Amos Anderson of the small but efficient Darien Police Department...
...dangled from a thong. The Minnesota girl's bones might never have been recovered if a scientific digger had not asked a practical digger for help. Professor Jenks had arranged with the Minnesota State Highway Commission, which was putting a road through Ottertail County, to watch for fossils. Finder of the Minnesota maid was one P. F. Stary, sharp-eyed section boss. Year and a half ago at a dinner in Chicago, some potent businessmen heard Geologist Arthur Keith of the National Research Council and other scholars ask that lay diggers keep their eyes peeled. Instructions were sent...
Wealthy Mrs. Paul M. Browne of Darien, Conn., an expectant mother during the summer, had had no occasion to wear her diamond bracelet and earrings until one evening last fortnight. They were gone. Her insurance company called in Private Detective Noel Scaffa, diamond finder extraordinary...
...Since finding them last October, Finder Gerald Fitzgerald, a fisherman, has tried to remain keeper. He sat in jail last week. Finally, he compromised with His Majesty's Government which held out for two-thirds of the cache. Grudgingly Gerald Fitzgerald revealed where he had hidden the $60,000, prepared to keep $20,000 less taxes, cursed in the hearing of sympathetic correspondents...