Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Ransom's poetry reads as if it had been written by a jazz muscian (it was). Jazz musicians ought not to write poetry...
With all that money, Maris could easily afford to pay the $2,500 "ransom" demanded last week by the Baltimore fan who caught the ball the Yankees' new hero hit for his 59th homer. But like a true big league ballplayer, Maris was not about to shake loose a single nickel. "I'll give him no more than another ball, autographed, in exchange," said Maris firmly. "That ball means nothing to him-only to me and the Hall of Fame...
...written to the Bronx Home News offering his life's savings in exchange for the child. Condon got an answer in fractured English and bearing the same curious signature-two overlapping blue circles with three crude square holes cutting across the design-that had appeared on the ransom note...
...Manhattan gas station attendant noted a customer who sheepishly handed over a $10 gold certificate to pay for five gallons of gas. A German-born Bronx carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was quickly arrested. He denied his guilt, but in his garage police found $14,600 of the ransom money, and a slat in his attic flooring matched one section of the ladder wood that Arthur Koehler had analyzed...
Historical Prank? Why did he go to so much trouble? The Goya was too well known to be sold. It was not insured (no national treasures are), and Her Majesty's government could hardly be expected to pay ransom-the most logical motive for most of the other robberies. At week's end, Scotland Yard was leaning to the theory that it was the work of some ingenious prankster with a highly dramatic sense of history. After all, the theft took place just 50 years to the day after a superpatriotic Italian workman named Vincenzo Perugia repatriated...