Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's own version of high intrigue in the art world got more complicated Thursday night, as a series of anonymous phone calls resulted in the recovery of the third of five murals that were stolen during the College's 350th anniversary ball...
...reporter, Joseph C. Tedeschi '90, said that the caller asked him for the phone numbers of the artists because he was anxious to return the stolen painting...
More than two hours later, Mary Rhinelander '83, one of two artists whose work was stolen, received a similar anonymous phone call from a man who said he had read the article and realized that he should give back the artwork...
Anonymous phone calls and stolen art are not parts of an average night in the Yard, but each was found in Thayer Hall last night when two of five murals stolen during the College's 350th anniversary ball were anonymously returned to the artists who painted them...
...million Canadians had had their wallets lifted -- credit cards, IDs and all. Revenue Minister Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...