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Being stationed in the gulf doesn't mean you can't send Valentine's Day flowers back home. Several hundred servicemen have placed orders with Calyx & Corolla, an innovative mail-order flower company in San Francisco. The troops get a 20% Valentine's discount...
...company has reached sales of $10 million. By contracting directly with 25 domestic and four foreign growers and teaming up with Federal Express, Owades cuts out wholesalers and retailers, guaranteeing that flowers or plants can be delivered within 48 hours and trimming costs as much as 15%. Customers of Calyx & Corolla -- the name refers to the outer and inner parts of a flower -- receive six catalogs a year, offering arrangements ranging from $25 (nine Enchantment Lilies) to $450 (a year's worth of orchids...
...into a focal point of the art world and the public, performing feats of public relations with practiced deftness. He never hesitated to acquire art, often by questionable means, and enjoyed paying handsomely for his sport. His most notable exploit was the acquisition, in 1972, of the Calyx Crater, a large Greek urn of dubious origin and value, for which the museum generously paid $1 million, plus $300,000 in coins...
...museums was originally pirated by foreign powers or smuggled out. Today the countries of the world officially operate on more elevated principles-but art thievery thrives as never before. It is a multimillion-dollar business that gets amphetamine shots from events like the Met's $ 1,000,000 calyx krater purchase. Tragically, it is also leading to the wholesale destruction of archaeological treasures, and occasionally murder along with theft...
Reporters who reached Sarrafian, 68, found him a little vague. "My interest is in coins," he said in Beirut. "I care little for vases." He had really paid little attention to the calyx krater. The pieces had been in a hatbox from 1926, when his father died, until 1970, when he consigned the box to Hecht. There were some odd discrepancies in his story. The Met had said that Hecht only got an agent's 10% of the price. Sarrafian suggested otherwise. The Met said the vase had no missing parts. Sarrafian said there were pieces missing, some...