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...window. Christie's director, David Carritt, was on vacation, and his evaluators, incredibly, attributed the work to a mediocre 17th century copyist named Lankrink, appraised it at $280, and placed it in the July 28 auction catalogue. Then it was hung in "the Hill," a long, sloping corridor where a few specialists are allowed to browse among works soon to be sold. There it was that Oliver Millar, deputy surveyor of the Queen's painting collection, paused and pondered one day last July. As he surveyed the two plump goddesses surrounding Paris and Venus, Millar now recalls...
...after day, until the search was abandoned at week's end, the Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force combined to comb a sea corridor that eventually widened to 129,000 sq. miles. At its height, the operation involved 55 planes -eight of them from the Navy carrier Hornet-two Coast Guard cutters, and a destroyer. Merchant ships and airliners were also asked to be on the lookout. They found nothing...
Around the Manhattan headquarters of American Airlines, one corridor gag is that "More women have gone to sleep with Bob Hall than with any other man in the world," and that's probably true...
...Army." For his new assignment Wooldridge wears a specially designed lapel insignia. Though the rank brings no increase in his $657.30-a-month pay, it carries with it some perquisites that a mere major general might envy. Occupying Pentagon office 3E673, a capacious suite just across the corridor from General Johnson's headquarters, Wooldridge sits in a high-backed leather chair behind a large desk with a six-button phone, has a WAC receptionist and a full-time clerical assistant. At nearby Fort Myer, an air-conditioned, eight-room house has been remodeled for Wooldridge, his wife Barbara...
...mile corridor from downtown Los Angeles to the U.C.L.A. campus is filling with office towers. Although San Francisco has added over 3,000,000 ft. of downtown office space in three years, the big new John Hancock and International buildings opened with 100% occupancy. Detroit went 30 years without a new office building, but builders recently completed three at once. Pittsburgh's famous Golden Triangle will double its office space in the next 18 months, and demand is so strong that Builder John Galbreath has just lifted his plans for a new U.S. Steel office from...