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...missing persons, Reporter Wright noticed that the two girls and five sons later born to Mrs. Moroney all looked remarkably alike. Under a picture of the family she wrote: "Would there be a 24-year-old woman anywhere who resembles these children, and who might possibly be the long-lost Mary Agnes?" Her question was answered quickly. In California, where the Oakland Tribune ran the picture, a young auto mechanic said the Moroneys looked just like his 24-year-old wife, Mary Beck McClelland, who had been adopted by a foster mother the year of the kidnaping...
...long illness; in Philadelphia. Called the "Napoleon of Books" by rival bibliophiles who often watched him skim off the cream of the rare-books sales, "Rosy" owned, at one time or another, a $25,000,000 collection of rare volumes. Among them: eight Gutenberg Bibles, between 30 and 40 first folios of Shakespeare, and the famous Bay Psalm Book, first book printed (1640) in Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable" $151,000. While still a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosy made his first big find in a Philadelphia auction room: the long-lost...
...young woman done on six small pieces of canvas sewed together. He picked it up for $100, and then on a hunch showed it to Maurice H. Goldblatt, director of Notre Dame's university art gallery. Director Goldblatt's verdict: the old painting is a long-lost portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by the 16th century Renaissance master Bartolommeo Veneto. Possible value...
...snapshot of Captain Thwaytes's picture to an expert in London. The expert gasped, demanded to see the picture. Sure enough, despite flaking and repeated clumsy attempts at restoration, it was, as Dealer Cookson had said all along, a genuine Caravaggio. "Expert restoration established it as the long-lost Musicians. The Metropolitan Museum put in a prompt bid, got it from v, delighted Captain Thwaytes for something more than...
Unfortunately, the trip was not necessary for a plot that is homegrown Hollywood, a handsome bushranger (Peter Lawford), who is wanted by the police, poses as Rancher Finlay Currie's long-lost son. But when Lawford finds that he has an unbrotherly affection for Currie's red-haired daughter (Maureen O'Hara), he owns up to his real identity, with the result that both love and justice come out on top Down Under...