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...what the heirs have kept should be immense. Not all the cream of the collection has gone to Florence; the family is merely down to its last half-dozen Titians, five or six Bellinis, and a pair of Tiepolo ceilings. Nobody knows what price the art may eventually fetch, but it seems certain that no group of paintings like it will be seen on the market again for years...
Busted Playmate. There are profits aplenty. A $10 or $20 "key" of Lebanese hash can fetch $1,500 or more in the U.S., and the figures tempt a wide variety of improbable smugglers. Book-of-the-Month Club Author W.S. Kuniczak (The Thousand Hour Day) was arrested last December for smuggling 160 Ibs. of hash into Greece; he is presently serving a 4½-year sentence on the island of Corfu. Playboy's December Playmate Gloria Root, 21, currently graces Athens' stark Averoff prison, where she is serving a ten-month sentence for crossing into Greece from Turkey...
...real creator is Hungarian-born, Paris-based Painter Victor. Vasarely, the most articulate theoretician of the op movement and longtime believer that art should be not merely a luxury for the rich but available to everyone (or almost everyone). Since Vasarely's paintings fetch upward of $16,000, the obvious way to cut costs was to mass-produce the medium and let the purchaser do the work. Once he hit upon the idea of using movable plastic units, Vasarely applied the fundamental idiom of his paintings-geometry and color. All pieces are snugly interlocking circles and squares and come...
...named Columbus Williams, who was serving time for assault and battery with intent to kill, was entrusted with a 12-gauge shotgun to guard other prisoners. One day Williams led a chain gang into the countryside to repair a bridge. During a lunch break, he ordered a prisoner to fetch him a rag to clean his shoes. The man refused, and Williams turned to Arthur, who also refused. "It's my lunch time," he said. With that, Williams fired his shotgun from a distance of not more than 20 feet. The pellets tore into Arthur's face, skull...
...only thing that all Irishmen agree about is that you're wrong. In fact, even that statement would probably fetch you a fight in any decent Dublin pub. So before a word is said about the Irish character, let it be stated that very few Irishmen have it. The Irish character, if the truth be told, is a silly joke played on the English, and is only kept around for the sake of the tourists...