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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...
...handsomely equipped. A Chinese scroll discovered in Lonsdale's apartment had a secret catch revealing a hollow core. It contained $1,800 in cash. A can of 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...
...court, Lonsdale seemed fatalistically detached. Curiously enough, police searching Helen Kroger's handbag had found a microdot message from Lonsdale's wife and a six-page handwritten letter in Russian from Lonsdale in reply. Wrote his wife: "How unjust is life. I fully understand you are working and this is your duty and you love your work and try to do all this very conscientiously. Nevertheless my reasoning is somehow narrowminded in a female fashion and I suffer dreadfully. Write to me how you love me and maybe I will feel better." In his reply to "beloved Galiusha...
...profit squeeze has led many firms to diversify in search of new sources of profits. Some retail jewelers are widening their lines to include typewriters, radios, stereo phonographs and small appliances. Shrinking profits have hit such giant food chains as A. & P., National Tea and Kroger, though some others have relieved the pinch by selling more and more items besides food. The Jewel Tea Co. chain (277 stores) has hiked its profits since it added high-profit-margin nonfood items-including brassieres...