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Hardly anybody wanted the grimy, torn portrait of an aged, slightly paunchy George Washington that for years had been hanging around New Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered...
...convictions based on the federal crime of mail fraud. Griffith relied on an arsonist turned informant: Merrill H. Klein, 53, a self-styled "business consultant" who worked as a "broker" for landlords eager to torch their property. After pleading guilty in 1974 to helping burn down a hotel in Bedford, Pa., Klein agreed to testify for the Government in three other arson cases he was also connected with, hoping his five-year sentence would not be increased (it wasn...
DIED. Margaret, the Duchess d'Uzès, 44, nee Bedford; in an automobile accident near Paris. Famous for the parties she gave in Manhattan and Paris, the American-born oil heiress and socialite was married in 1968 to her third husband, Duke Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès, who holds the oldest title in France...
...singularly immovable lot--and no political reformer, no matter how irresistable, can do anything about it. Koch sees this; anyone who saw the agony of the last few years of John Lindsay's administration has to know it. Of course, there are the minority groups: anyone who lives in Bedford Stuyvesant or the South Bronx cannot fail to want change. But most of the city is not the South Bronx--it is Flatbush and Canarsie, where the people like their Yankees hot and their politicians quiet. And most of all, it is places like Elmwood, where the people...
Decter's evidence for her thesis seems to be a car ride through Harlem and Bedford-Styvesant. Certainly she doesn't seem to have talked to any of the people to whom she so glibly ascribes motives...