Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings.
While the Duchess of Kent was away from home, someone got into her rambling Victorian country place (Coppins, in Buckinghamshire), snitched a police whistle that London bobbies had given the pretty widow for use in just such an emergency.
In Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito, a young man of well-defined lineage, lost...
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