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...including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, considered to be among the museum's most expensive, says the museum's curator, Lukas Gloor. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...
...Among the stolen artworks was Cezanne's The Boy in the Red Vest, one of the favorite paintings of the museum's late founder, Swiss industrialist Emil Georg Bührle. "He considered this work the signature painting of his collection," Gloor, told TIME last year...
Among Bührle's personal favorites, says the foundation's curator, Lukas Gloor, was Corot's A Girl Reading, because of "the painter's virtuoso handling of the color red." But anyone visiting this gem of a museum is bound to find a favorite of his or her own. 172 Zollikerstrasse; tel: (41-44) 422 00 86; www.buehrle.ch...
Next day Churchill himself was nearly hurt. On Tooting Bee Common, Michael Gloor Le Pelley, 17, tossed a lit firecracker at the Prime Minister's face. Momentarily staggered, Churchill told police "not to hurt the little fool...
Near Miacatlan on a tour of Mexico with his fiancée, Ellen Mary Byron Gloor of Manhattan, Otto Kym came upon Miss Gloor struggling in the arms of their native chauffeur, Aloises Lopez. Kym focused his movie camera, shot the scene, turned Lopez and the film over to police...