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...soldiers going to war always do: they wrote a lot of letters home. Some of them never got there: to be exact, 235 letters to 117 addresses in 34 states from 93 servicemen. For reasons that may never be known, this batch of V-mail wound up in an attic in Raleigh, N.C., in the house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June by Michael Minguez, an exterminator, and turned over to Raleigh Postmaster Ross Garulski. Last week during a ceremony at the Washington headquarters...
...bearing the monogram A.H., convinced Massman that the apartment had once been Hitler's. Massman sent the memorabilia home to Chicago with a note telling his wife to remove the pictures and use the book for photos of their newborn daughter. Instead, Mrs. Massman stashed the album in the attic...
...write the official biography. Kirkpatrick found that Vidor had saved just about every scrap of paper he had accumulated in his long life--some 200 boxes of letters, manuscripts, Valentine cards, income tax returns--but almost nothing from 1967. The biographer ransacked Vidor's three houses, prying up attic floorboards, prowling through crawl spaces. After three weeks of searching, he found a padlocked strongbox in the garage of Vidor's Beverly Hills guesthouse. With a tire iron he smashed the lock, and there it all was, Vidor's archive on the Taylor murder. Kirkpatrick is a writer whose prose...
...built in the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan, which was first finished in 1666, burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 and left largely unoccupied since its restoration was completed in 1905. When Decorator Jacques Grange first inspected the premises in 1982, he found himself inside a glorious attic in which hundreds of pigeons flew free under a glass rooftop supported by a metal framework. Grange and Architect Daniel Kahane kept practically everything but the birds. They added oak for the floors, stone for stairs and gallery walls, spending nearly $6 million to achieve an easy, inviting elegance...
...Museum, "High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design." The show, which includes 300 pieces of furniture, craftworks, tableware and household appliances, was assembled by six different curators and seems more the rough outline of a museum exhibit than a finished show. Indeed, in a gallery that is like the vast attic of some anonymous and impossibly trendy old American family--interesting, to be sure, but incoherent--the recurrent evocation of the future is one of the few themes reaffirmed by the eclectic jumble...