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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police last week recovered ten paintings stolen in 1976 from the home of the director of the Fogg Museum...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Recovered Art Haul Includes Paintings Stolen in '76 From Harvard Professor | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...paintings, valued at $50,000, included "A Portrait of a Standing Young Man Holding a Pen," by Cornelius Van Haarlem, worth $30,000. They were stolen from the home of Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Recovered Art Haul Includes Paintings Stolen in '76 From Harvard Professor | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...scripts and had an uncredited influence on the structure and content of many other major films. But Hollywood also evoked the worst in him. During the Depression, Mankiewicz and his colleagues were earning $1,250 a week. Mank gambled it away, with as much disdain as if he had stolen it from his children's Monopoly set. "Hollywood money," explained his friend Charles MacArthur, "is something you throw off the ends of trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Wit | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...Grenades found in the hideout have been traced to a cache of stolen arms in Switzerland that was also used by members of Germany's Red Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The German Connection | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...West German automobile license plates, found in the same hideout, were not listed as stolen in either West Germany or Italy, and thus presumably were taken directly to Rome. (Italian license plates belonging to the cars used in the Moro attack were found at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The German Connection | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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