Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fogg Museum security guard last month foiled what is assumed to be an attempted theft of a Degas sculpture with an estimated value of one million dollars, a police spokesperson said yesterday...
Museum security officials refused to comment on the incident, but Fogg spokesperson Peter Walsh said no major security changes would result from the incident...
...Harvard police soon contacted the Boston Musuem of Fine Arts (MFA) because the MFA had reported a 14th century Ming vase stolen from its Vitrene case only four days before. According to Tempesta, FBI agents investigating the MFA theft checked the Fogg for fingerprints because the modus operandi in both incidents was similiar...
Neither man fits the description of the Fogg suspects, but some observers said that does not rule out the possiblity they were somehow involved in the incident. "It is possible [Athanatos and Corteselli] are fences," said WBZ-TV reporter Brad Willis...
Crystal contends that the eastern end of the neighborhood is worthy of preservation. She and other neighborhood activists charge that Harvard's new Busch-Reisinger Museum behind the Fogg Art Museum and a complex of shops at 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. could irrevocably change the area's character...