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Last week Larousse relented. Bowled over by the Attic charms of a new Greek cultural attaché in Paris, the publishers announced that grec in their forthcoming centenary edition would be defined solely as an inhabitant of Greece or that which pertains to Greece. "In these matters," said Attaché George Averoff, "official notes are no use. I got to know Larousse's publisher. I got to know his wife. We had dinner-and the matter was fixed...
...best examples they could find. As they prowled from dealer to dealer, prices rose, and so did the reputations of such little-known artists as John Quidor, Martin Johnson Heade and Fitz Hugh Lane. Less affluent collectors, sniffing the same faint scents, helped stir the interest of attic rummagers...
...liked to ride a bicycle to the office, and got there promptly at 8 every morning. When his day's work was done he was happiest in his library. He bought and read everything he could about American history, until books overflowed to the attic and the basement. "A man's education," said Ziegler Sargent, "never ends...
...four slaves and the most prosperous barbershop in town. That same year, he began to keep a shrewd and candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson's Natchez is one of those authentic windfalls that period scholars festoon with footnotes, and plain readers enjoy as offbeat browsing...
...Belgium's top justices, grave in fur-trimmed gowns. Next to them were Senators and Representatives. Under a huge red velvet canopy stood the throne of Belgium, a formidable chair-newly gilded and fitted with red upholstery-which had been lugged down from the Parliament building's attic...