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Even coincidence smiled on the collection. Three paintings never before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...
...would." Player had never won an amateur tournament when he abruptly turned pro at 17. But under the careful eye of his future father-in-law, Johannesburg Club Professional Jock Verwey, he practiced religiously, eight hours a day, trimmed off excess weight with a diet of nuts, dried fruit and honey, built up muscle by lifting weights and doing 70 fingertip push-ups a day. From fellow South African Bobby Locke, Player picked up pointers on his short game. Later, from Ben Hogan, he learned how to grip his clubs properly. Says Hogan: "Gary is doing what I have long...
Everyone knows the price of a hot dog -but who can estimate the value of a dog bed once owned by Marie Antoinette? Any housewife knows what to pay for a dozen oranges-but how much must she spend for a Basket of Fruit by Cézanne? The price of good art and antiques tends to fluctuate by nations, by year, by fashion, by taxes and by trickery...
...added stability to the business, eases the sharp ups and downs caused by whimsical weather. Oranges have become such a good investment that one enterprising developer is selling plots in groves that he will manage much like a mutual fund, planting orange trees, caring for them and eventually selling fruit for the investor...
...cover every war-at $1,000 a week plus expenses. In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M., Arthur Balfour, used to drop by at his rooms for a shank-of-the-morning snack. In Venezuela he ate his first avocado, promptly introduced the fruit to the U.S. market. In Cuba he wrote fiery dispatches that, front-paged by Hearst, helped to push the U.S. into war with Spain; and once war was declared, R.H.D.'s spectacular reports on the Rough Riders helped make T.R. a national hero. In Belgium, two years before his death...