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Much has happened to Maurice Sterne since the barroom brawl of 1895: He studied under the late great Thomas Eakins. Lived and painted in Germany, France, Italy, Egypt, India. Spent two years in Bali 20 years ago (and produced the best paintings yet to appear from that overpainted paradise). Married and divorced the late D. H. Lawrence's friend Mabel Dodge. Made an artist of importance of his lawyer, banker, publisher friend Edward Bruce. Became the unofficial lord of the little Italian hilltown of Anticoli. In Anticoli he lives in a 48-room castle, spends most of his time...
...were not quite sure what they could do with their prisoner. When he arrived in Manhattan three weeks ago after a year spent chiefly in French jails for stowing away on the He de France and later lifting other people's travelers' checks, Mike told his many barroom friends that he had arrived on the Euro pa, stowage (TIME, Jan. 2). But the Government's case against him for illegal entry on the Europa began to fade when the North German Lloyd line maintained that Mike cauld not have come into the country on their boat. Mike...
...scruff of the neck; "I'm old enough to be your father, but I'll lay you cold if you don't apologize. You're not talking to George Luks now, you're talking to 'Chicago Whitey,' the best barroom fighter in America. . . ." When most of the scandalized audience had fled, Artist Luks subsided, laughed, smoked a cigaret and then-for the benefit of a few adoring disciples-painted a skillful little sketch...
...detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude by Charles Landelle nearly six feet long. The valuable pictures Morosini owned were all 18th Century views of Venice...
...years ago he moved into a three-story penthouse on svelte Park Avenue, from which he could look down on a building called the Ritz Tower. The apartment was decorated by Theatrical Designer Lee Simonson. It had a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties, a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase. His modernistic bedroom held a big bed equipped with push buttons for books, chromatic lights, music from one of his eight radios. Bill Paley lived there a while, then moved into a conventional bedroom. He was too active, too aggressive to enjoy lying in fancy...