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There have been no attempted thefts at the Louvre since 1911, when an Italian workman walked off with the Mona Lisa. It took the guard several minutes to work himself out of his daze. While the alarms sounded and the detectives hustled through the crowd he remembered a young man who had been copying the painting, a young woman who carried a folding camp stool easily big enough to hide it. Both had disappeared. Valued at anything from $80,000 up, the little picture had been snipped clean from the wires that held it -loosely, to make rescue easy...
After the Mona Lisa vanished in 1911, a new confidence game flourished for a while: selling the "genuine" Mona Lisa to rich suckers who were unable to squawk when they found themselves stuck with copies instead of stolen goods. French police last week expected the same thing to happen with L'Indifférent, put a close watch on dubious picture dealers, airports and trains. The Mona Lisa was gone for two years before they found her in the thief's home in Florence...
...MENACING SUN-Mona Gardner -Harcourt, Brace...
...bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...
...shadow of Japanese planes stayed over Mona Gardner on her eleventh-hour reconnaissance of three menaced Eastern empires (French, Dutch and British). Everywhere she found distrust of the Japanese, little evidence of their effective penetration except the inevitable Japanese photographic shop in every strategic railway junction, harbor, mining town...