Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there would be nothing for it but to leave school, quit his job as janitor at Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, and take the humiliating news back to his schoolteacher father in Singapore. Finally, one day in October 1955, Cheng disappeared. His friends, including the Rev. Eugene Ransom, pastor of the church, called in police. They found no clues...
This summer Cheng's Methodist friends had another mystery to ponder: strange bumping noises that came out of the deserted church by night. Early one morning last week a pair of private detectives, called in by Mr. Ransom, heard a trap door to the church attic slam. Together with Ann Arbor police, they climbed up, swept their flashlights about the attic. There, crouched above them in the rafters, was Cheng...
...title: "Most dangerous thief of Egyptian antiquities." His accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared. A prime item, whereabouts unknown: the jeweled scepter of Egypt's King Tutankhamen (14th century B.C.), valued at a cool $3,000,000. Taking his ease in Rome, Farouk murmured: "Let them say what they will. These are things that do not interest kings, but only lawyers...
...both fugitives were rounded up next day. Complained their involuntary host: "They were completely devoid of a sense of humor." But Poet Engle, far from humorless, is now, according to his friends, perfectly situated to write a farce version of The Desperate Hours, presumably with some very realistic Ransom of Red Chief overtones...
...Ransom of Red Chief (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Abetted by the network, Scriptwriter Phil Reisman Jr. has tampered inexcusably with O. Henry's hilarious tale of the kidnaping of a young hellion. With William Bendix, Hans Conried, and Mickey Rooney's nine-year-old son Teddy...