Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this official statement Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum last week locked the barn door after the theft of a small but valuable ($3,000 to $5,000) picture. Stolen from the Metropolitan's walls was an 11½ by 8⅜ in. tempera painting of St. Thomas the Apostle, attributed by experts to Simone Martini, a 14th-Century Italian painter of the Sienese School...
German gold, including upward of $1 billion stolen from occupied countries, pays for espionage and sabotage, electrical equipment from Switzerland, fine steel from Sweden, cork from Portugal, rare metals such as Spam's wolfram (see p. 17). It could also buy a haven for Nazi bigwigs when & if they try to flee from defeated Germany. To stop such traffic, the Allies have done what they could to make Nazi gold not only worthless but an actual liability to those who deal in it. Announced the U.S. Treasury...
...attempted shot and made good one of his free throws to even the count at 33 all. A minute later Caleb Loring sank a field goal to give the Stahlmen a two-point lead with two minutes to play. The Crimson tried to freeze the ball, but had it stolen away and thrown in for a basket by McGinnis of the Receiving Station. Neither team was able to tally in the last minute of play, so the game went into overtime...
Partisans, Five. At the farm of Antonio ("Tony, they call me in the United States") the trap had been laid. Two German paratroopers had stolen Tony's chickens for Christmas. They would be back for Tony's pig for New Year's. Tony, his son and their friends waited. From ambush they fired an Italian rifle and an Italian machine gun. They tossed the bodies into a quickly dug grave and scrambled up a steep path to Gessapolina. There they had the protection of British patrols...
Hauls. In Evansville, Ind., police held a 130-lb. man who confessed that he had entered the James Fulkersons' home and stolen their 800-lb. piano. In Boston, police wondered where to look for thieves who had lifted a harp and a hearse. In Cleveland, Judge Robert N. Wilkin was primed to make a few remarks on law & order at a naturalization ceremony when one of the new citizens announced that his pocket had just been picked...