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Recently the Greek government deposited in Kalavryta's bank 230 million drachmas (about $250,000). Also in the town was a heavy shipment of U.S. food parcels. The Communist guerrillas, from their spies, heard about this loot...
...biggest & best collection of borrowed art since the loot Napoleon had brought home to the Louvre from his conquering sweep of Europe. And it was even better guarded. In Washington's National Gallery, blue-coated guards in reinforced numbers paced the corridors. Military policemen stood in every room. But the 202 paintings they were guarding (estimated value: $80,000,000) were not loot, though they too had been brought back by conquerors (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). All but two-a Daumier and a Manet-had once hung on the walls of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
Last week, the conquerors were making the most of this loot-on-loan. One day the attendance at the National Gallery was 11,895. Lecturers took whole platoons of sightseers through, speaking in sibilant whispers, and on the rim of every cluster gallerygoers jostled to see & hear. But no one could take in everything-the 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, five Botticellis, the Bruegels, Vermeers, three Raphaels, five Jan van Eycks, five Titians, three Watteaus, the Holbeins, Diirers, Hals and the Velasquez...
Professor Loot has already used seismographs to prospect for gold...
...Graduate Secretary Charles W. Duhig '29, notified Cambridge and Yard police of the burglary early Tuesday morning. At the end of three days' combing of all available leads, investigators have so far been unable to uncover the loot, valued at $80 by Duhig...