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From Lonsdale the trail led to a bungalow in suburban Ruislip, just outside London. There, middle-aged Peter and Helen Kroger had set up a modest book business in the front room. Hospitable and friendly, the Krogers had long been neighborhood favorites. Neighbor George Hammond recalled that Mrs. Kroger had dropped around only a couple of hours before her arrest with some fresh bones...
...police found New Zealand passports in the Krogers' effects. But soon fingerprints told a different story. From the FBI in Washington came evidence that Helen Kroger was, in fact, Lona Petka of Adams, Mass., and her husband was Morris Cohen, sometime of New York City, who had played guard on Monroe High's championship 1927 football team. Teammates remembered him as "Unc," for his likeness then to Uncle Walt of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Unc Cohen went on to take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil...
...paint at Houghton's place contained a plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...
...HELEN KENNEDY...
...could wage war with an established nightclub owner who had refused to offer Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance. Meanwhile, the Royal Poinciana Playhouse had begun its fourth season with The Skin of Our Teeth, which will soon leave on a State Department tour of Europe, with Helen Hayes, Leif Erickson, June Havoc and Helen Menken. With Artist-Showman Salvador Dali. Bandleader Sammy Kaye, Mime Marcel Marceau, Actor-Singer Russell Nype. Hollywood Profile George Hamilton and Actress Susan Kohner also in town for highly varied reasons, there was more than ample fuel for the increasing celebrity-consciousness...