Word: renn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Customs officers, traditionally easygoing with American tourists, let them pass. "Americans could walk out of Italy with the Colosseum," complained one contraband officer. But last month frontier customs guards caught an Austrian carrying a vase dating from the 6th century B.C. He got it, he said casually, from "old Renn-Rain...
Disguising themselves as American tourists with cigars and cameras as props, contraband officers called at the fashionable antique shop of "F. Renn-Rain-world famous and unique," just below Rome's Spanish Steps. There was nothing Etruscan to be seen, but the salesman steered them around the corner to a 17th century palace at No. 77 Via della Croce. First, the officers put a watch on No. 77, keeping an eye on middlemen entering and purchasers leaving the place. Last week officers raided No. 77 and confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found...
...Nonsense." Franz Renn-Rain, 72, an Austrian who years ago abandoned his study for the priesthood to sell art in Italy, denied that he was "the master archaeological fence." Flapping about the palace in a stained silk dressing gown, he mourned: "Nonsense, nonsense, it's a small collection of little things. So I let my friends come to look at my collection. So I let them buy a few things. So I export something to America once in a while. What is all this talk about Etruscan antiquities? Nobody can prove the Etruscans even existed...
...dislocated shoulder sustained last week in the Renn match has permanently sidelined lightweight Tatsuo Aroma, who will be replaced by lanky sophomore Bob McLaughlin. Dick Hook, junior 157-ponder, in out for the season with a broken wrist. Letterman Frank Baker, also 157 pounds, is not expected to return until after mid-years...
Such as sophomore Bobby Renn, a good defensive back and kicker who compiled a 39-yard-per-kick average for 52 tries last season. Such as husky Jim Shelton, who was the individual star against Richmond, although he is only a sophomore...