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Scrap Iron. As the magnitude of Denver's coup became apparent-a million people visited the grave every year-certain Wyoming citizens threatened to kidnap Bill. Denver's alarmed citizenry took steps-15 tons of concrete and old railroad iron were laid over the grave...
...back. For a whim, he recklessly scaled the dizzy dome of St. Peter's in Rome, and carved his initials on the lantern that had been left there by Michelangelo. Soon after, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition for breaking into a convent and trying to kidnap...
...novels, it appears, was interpreted as a vindictive portrait of Rebecca's grandmother. Mrs. Jardine's leaving her first husband was apparently a noted scandal of the 1890s, complete with ruined career, resignation from the diplomatic corps, and a midnight attempt by Mrs. Jardine to kidnap their infant daughter Ianthe. When Ianthe was 18 her emancipated mother sent a lover to win her away from her conventional guardian-a plot which left the lover dead by his own hand, Ianthe out of her wits, and her illegitimate child dead...
Beniamino Gigli, moonfaced, huffy-puffy Italian tenor, whose onetime Nazi friends have given him some uneasy moments since Rome's liberation (TIME, June 19), forked over 50,000 lire ($500) on a threat of kidnapping. He gave the money to one Giuseppe Albano, "Rome's public enemy No. 1," who then sent three men out to kidnap him anyway. The police, tipped off, captured the three henchmen and killed Albano...
...whereabouts of doddering old Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was uncertain. Many Frenchmen were sure that he would be in Paris to meet the victorious Allies, if the Nazis did not kidnap him. But, a fortnight before, Petain had told diplomats still in Vichy: "Should it become known that I have left ... I wish to make it clear that I will not leave of my own volition...