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...17th century a French consul dug down into the dunes, sent hundreds of ornate columns to Louis XIV. At the start of the 19th century an English sea captain sent home a second load of marble loot. It now ornaments the grounds at Windsor Castle. The winds blew and the dunes again covered what was left, until digging began in earnest in modern times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: CITY FROM THE SAND | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Included in the loot which reportedly comes from the graduate dormitories are typewriters, radios and electric clocks. Books, cocktail shakers, records, and clothing were also found in the students' car when they were arrested in Wakefield cemetery, police said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trio Arrested In Dorm Theft | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...manner of Poe's Raven. From across the frozen tundra comes the Prince of Salestria, who wants to thaw out with Lulu in the same busy bed. Since Lulu is a cocotte, pleasure is business, but business is also her pleasure. For a 10% share of the loot, she agrees to fake marriage to Marcel to gull Marcel's godfather out of a fortune. When Philippe returns unexpectedly, the plot double-quickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly set up to win $1,700 from the Oregonian, had also sent the lion's share of the loot to Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fix Is the Word | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...case of the five Cambridge youths who allegedly stole more than $450 in loot from two rooms in the Yard has been postponed until June 23. At this time it will be dismissed if full restitution is made and if the boys have been involved in no further trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hearing on Theft Set for June 23 | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

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