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...forced to sell the family home to pay his debts. Bankrupt farmers bartered chickens for their drugs. In Minneapolis, Hubert soaked up the intellectual sunshine, earned his board with a 15?-an-hour clerking job in a campus drugstore, and slept with ten other students in an icy attic. But after his sophomore year he went home. His father could no longer afford to keep two sons in college (Brother Ralph, a senior, was allowed to finish out the year...
...Salas' potato omelets, a four-man Guardia Civil patrol stealthily surrounded the farmhouse and sat waiting for reinforcements. A barking dog alerted the bandits, and in the first exchange, two bullets caught Sabater in the foot and thigh. Sabater ordered Salas and his wife to safety in the attic, calmly dressed his own wounds with a first-aid kit he carried and, firing from windows, held off the green-uniformed policemen all afternoon. But troopers were converging on the farmhouse from every direction, and when darkness fell, the trapped bandit chief decided on a desperate gambit...
Newspaper readers sometimes get the impression that lost masterpieces of art turn up continually, and that any old-looking picture in the attic or at an auction may be worth a fortune. The day-after fact: the typical news story about the Rembrandt that Aunt Sophie found in a pushcart usually comes unglued just a few days after it has been front-paged, but by then, it is no longer news. Contributing to the confusion is the fact that art experts generally refuse to challenge such stories, for fear of libel suits. Result: gullible collectors spend thousands each year purchasing...
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young...
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young...