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Kidnapping, said Nat J. L. Pieper, regional head of FBI, was vanishing from the U. S. Agent Pieper was addressing the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on the subject one day last week. A message interrupted Mr. Pieper's speech. It was a summons to suburban Hillsborough. There had been a startling kidnapping...
From a sobbing, grey-haired little woman Agent Pieper got the story. The woman, Mary Foley, nursemaid in the home of wealthy Count Marc de Tristan, had been taking three-year-old Marc Jr. for a walk when a car drove up beside them. A black-a-vised, beak-nosed man leaped out, grabbed Marc, slugged her when she fought him, sped off with the child towards San Mateo...
...strong centralized authority, and the Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit headquarters with no sanction except Mr. Martin's personal blessing. According to President Martin, U.A.W...
...Unionville, Conn., Farmer John Lorencik, 22, announced his engagement to Nurse Henrietta Wilhelmina Pieper, 70, a gat-toothed spinstress. Said she: "It just came over both of us like a thunderbolt." Said he: "She won't keep me out late at night...
...abstract or other methods of painting were conspicuously rare. Second prize ($600) was awarded for Woman Near a Table, a semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many critics more successful in the first...