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Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali announced in Nice that he is about to go into a new motion picture venture. To be produced by him next year: a movie starring Italy's earthy Anna Magnani, in which she will play a woman in love with a wheelbarrow. "The name of the film will be The Wheelbarrow of Flesh" explained Dali, "and she will find in that object all the qualities and charms of a human being . . . it's terrific...
...Found More Skeleton." The scheme that finally got Con Man Moore was his "Lost Wheelbarrow Mine." To help promote it, in 1936, he used one of the most spectacular stunts in the long history of mine frauds. He got an unsuspecting partner to tell the story to millions of prospects all at once on the nationwide radio program, We the People...
...story, according to Moore: in the 1880's two prospectors discovered a fabulously rich vein of gold-bearing ore in the hills 20 miles outside of Moscow, Idaho. One shot the other, then headed to town, leaving a wheelbarrow to mark the mine...
When he returned, an avalanche had covered up the wheelbarrow and he was never able to find the vein again. Who found it? Moore, of course. And he also found the wheelbarrow, the dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...
...cell this week Moore, as usual, had a lot of ideas running through his head. He plans to sell magazine articles telling readers how gullible they are. As for his story about the Lost Wheelbarrow Mine, it is all absolutely true, he said. Every word...