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...many new facts had come to light about Gaitan's death. On the killer's battered body were found the identification papers of a 25-year-old religious fanatic named Juan Roa Sierra, but there was serious doubt that they were the dead man's own papers. Everybody agreed that the Communists had had a hand-right up to the elbow-in the affair. Secretary Marshall had denounced "the same definite pattern which provoked strikes in Italy and France and is endeavoring to prejudice the situation in Italy's elections." In Washington, the Central Intelligence Agency...
...acre estate in San Marino, Calif., in sight of the Sierra Madres, Huntington built two immense homes for his treasures. There, in a hall lined with million-dollar Boucher tapestries, he held many a midnight session with Rosenbach and Sir Joseph Duveen, planning collecting coups. Then, in 1919, Huntington deeded the whole kit & caboodle to the public. "The ownership of a fine library," he observed, "is the swiftest and surest way to immortality...
Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt look for gold and find trouble in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt look for gold and find trouble in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt look for gold and find trouble in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...