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Fenway Court contains Isabella Stewart Gardner's vast, ill-assorted art collection. Included among much of little or no value, are some of the finest Italian paintings in the country including a Simone Martini polytych, a small Giorgione, and Titian's "Rape of Europa." French and German portraits, Flemish tapestries, and oriental works are also discernible, and delightful, among the litter of Sargents, Sorollas, and Zorns...
...else who saw Picasso's latest show would as soon demand a thunderstorm without clouds or rain as a Picasso without smudges or spots. The faithful raved over a pinheaded, plump-breasted, dirty-white thing astride a horned and half-destroyed reddish-brown thing. Entitled The Rape of Europa, it was dated June 5, 1946. Asked one impious art-lover: "Between what hours did he paint it?" It seemed to have something to do with the Greek myth in which Zeus turned himself into a bull to carry off a pretty girl named Europa on his back. Picasso...
...leader of a counterfeit gold coin ring, the 24-year-old, French Canadian Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle his Europas; sometimes...
Prize Ship. The United States Lines and Britain's great Cunard White Star Ltd. both began maneuvering to obtain North German Lloyd's 50,000-ton, blue-ribbon liner Europa, found in fairly good condition. Neither wanted the Europa's sister ship, the Bremen, so badly damaged that she was considered a total loss...
There is every likelihood that in such a case, Churchill was prepared to retire to other parts of the Empire to carry on the war. But if Britain had been lost, there would have been small chance that the U.S. could ever have launched a successful invasion of Festung Europa. For that enterprise, a huge unsinkable aircraft carrier-was almost essential. The none too practical route through Africa would have been far less practical had the Germans not had to divide their defense between the English Channel and Mediterranean...