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Cab driver returns stradivarius violin.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Mohammed Khalil)(Brief article)
Shortly after midnight on the morning of April 21, Philippe Quint, a Grammy-nominated classical violinist, and a companion arrived from Dallas at Newark Liberty International Airport. The pair boarded a minivan taxi owned and operated by Mohammed Khalil for a $52 ride across the Hudson River to Battery Park City in Manhattan.
After Khalil had dropped them off at their destination and pulled away, a sickening realization hit maestro Quint: he had left a 285-year-old Stradivarius violin, worth four million dollars, on the back seat! What's more, the violin did not even belong to Quint--wealthy Chicago philanthropists Clement and Karen Arrison, who often lend fine instruments from their valuable collection to promising musicians, had generously loaned it to him!
Obtaining help from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Newark Taxicab Division, Quint tracked Khalil down at the "taxi stack" outside the airport terminal where cabs line up, and Khalil ...
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