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Raiding a purse snatcher's hideout, Paris police were startled to find a signed Utrillo hanging on the wall. That started them on the trail of what may be the biggest ring of art forgers in recent years. Last week Paris cops nabbed the artist who forged the Utrillos. She was one Mme. Juliette Claude La Tour-"Zizi" to her Montmartre friends...
...ends are Fitz and Dana Bresnahan, another rangy pass-snatcher, with huge Ossie Keever and Jack Chilcott holding down the tackle slots. Gordy Stensrud and Frank Powell are at the guard posts, while Charlie Loring and Bob Grady have shared the center spot through the season. Behind the first team, too, lies a host of able reserves...
...first seen at work, Vidocq is just an unusually smooth garter-snatcher (his quarry: Carole Landis). But as he matures, he does a dowager (Alma Kruger) out of every jewel she has, without diminishing her regard for him. He also inspires high regard in her lovely granddaughter (Signe Hasso), and decides that as a detective, recovering the lost jewels by brilliant deduction, he can make his way in the world even better...
...Cradle Snatcher. In Waukesha, Wis., a deadpanned jury pronounced a Holstein bull guilty of contributing to the delinquency of minors (two heifers), fined his owner...
Armed for Action. In Glendale, Calif., Mrs. Chet Swital routed a would-be purse-snatcher by slamming him with a book titled The Lady Means Business...