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...tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads and commoners all over Europe and to plan more Utopias...
...Forger Thiel, a grey-haired, dignified man who bears a striking resemblance to the late John Barrymore, was just another confidence man until he reached middle age. But in the early '30s he turned up in Manhattan's financial district wearing pince-nez and carrying a stick...
...Scholar in Crime. As Major Maclay, Forger Thiel was a connoisseur of fine wines and food. He read scholarly works on engineering, medicine and art. He bought $150 suits, $25 shirts, $10 neckties. He often wintered in Miami...
...undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...
...nearly paralyzed with arthritis, but with paintbrushes lashed to his gnarled hands, he still painted his sunset-colored nudes, still kept a temper as sunny as a boy's. When an irate admirer appeared with a forged Renoir, suggesting that the old man should sue the forger, Renoir merely painted the forgery over, made it into a genuine Renoir...