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...Yorker Naomi Weisz Nagel, 56, the story began with precious coded letters miraculously smuggled out of Czechoslovakia by her parents in 1943. An aunt who survived the war showed her how the letters contained the numbers of a secret Swiss account disguised as a telephone number. But when she and her aunt tried to retrieve the money from a Basel bank after the war, officials said there were no records of the account. "Despite our specific identification of an account number at a specific bank, despite having hired a Swiss lawyer, the bank refused to return my family's money...
...years now, "outsider art"--meaning the work of amateur artists with no access to the art world as a system--has been a rising vogue in America. Each winter a whole fair is dedicated to it in New York City, and there isn't a scribbling schizophrenic, crotcheting aunt or suburban obsessive constructing replicas of the Eiffel Tower from wooden toothpicks in his New Jersey basement who can be deemed altogether immune to discovery by dealers. There's no mystery about why this should be so, since a) the art market has run out of new "movements," while b) there...
...comes a darker novel, Cloud Chamber (Scribners; 316 pages; $24). It is a sequel of sorts, though Rayona appears only at the end. She's still 15 and untroubled by romance, still living with her crusty Aunt Ida on the reservation in Montana. Her father turns up in the last chapters with a couple of elderly white ladies who are, surprisingly, his Irish-American mother and his aunt. By this time the novel has traced Rayona's tangled lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rose Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving...
...that JonBenet had been physically abused, the incredulous grandmother tells TIME, "I know all about what happened. I was there. JonBenet had climbed up on a stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down on top of her." JonBenet's aunt Pam Paugh, who lives in Atlanta, has had about enough of all the rumors. "Drug abuse? Absolutely not!" she tells TIME. As for her sister Patsy's obsession with pageants, says Paugh: "The fact is JonBenet was in her first pageant a month before she turned five. She did nine...
DIED. QUENTIN BELL, 86, British artist, author and noted biographer of his novelist aunt, Virginia Woolf; in Firle, England. Born into a Bloomsbury family, he became a chronicler of the famed intellectual group that included his aunt as well as E.M. Forster and Duncan Grant...