Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis was having better luck. Police finally recovered his 1946 Cadillac, stolen in deepest Harlem last October, and charged a dining-car waiter with the crime. The waiter, they said, declared that he absolutely would not have stolen it if he had known it was Louis...
...weeks the U.S. garrison had seen signs of resurgent Jap activity. A raft loaded with stolen Marine rations was discovered floating in Peleliu's lowland swamps. Then a Marine sentry fired on a band looting a warehouse of captured Japanese weapons, was answered with rifle and grenade fire. The Jap strength was estimated at 50, led by a lieutenant commander, with more coming in daily from nearby Babelthuap. Alarmed by the weakness of his small, lightly armed Marine garrison, worried for the safety of the 35 naval dependents, Peleliu's commander radioed for reinforcements...
...Stolen: armfuls of Tallulah Bankhead's flowers from admirers; on opening night in Manhattan. "I saw a strange man in my dressing room," Tallulah recalled later, "but I didn't think anything...
...Stolen: Marlene Dietrich's jeep; from outside a Paris hotel. Chin up, she told the press she would try to get another: "A jeep is . . . a sentimental thing...
Found: Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay's limousine; in a Czechoslovakian border village; two weeks after it was stolen from a Berlin A.M.G. parking lot. The culprits, vowed police, would be apprehended any minute...