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...DIED. JACK SLIPPER, 81, Scotland Yard detective who, despite his reputation as one of the best, will be remembered for his failed global pursuit of nemesis Ronnie Biggs, one of the masked men who in 1963 robbed a mail train from Glasgow to London of ?2.6 million (then $7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery, and later escaped jail; reported in London. Though Slipper nabbed Biggs in Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with the words, "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs?who remained a fugitive until 2001, when...
DIED. JACK SLIPPER, 81, Scotland Yard detective who, despite his reputation as a master, will be remembered for his thwarted global pursuit of nemesis Ronald Biggs, one of the masked men who robbed a night mail train from Glasgow to London of £2.6 million ($7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and who, though caught, soon escaped jail; reported in London. Slipper tracked Biggs to Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), but Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs, who remained a fugitive until 2001, when...
...Sharmanka gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, Bersudsky now exhibits 3-D expressions of his inner torments and the life he led as an artistic outcast after his return to Leningrad in 1961. He began carving wood and tinkering with junk and in 1967 produced his first kinetic sculpture of a barrel-organ grinder. "When he saw how it moved, he could never stop making them again," says Tatyana Jakovskaya, Bersudsky's wife, who met the artist in 1988 when he was still living in Leningrad, in a single room crammed with his sad, mad and satirical moving sculptures. Among them...
...mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather not, to show Sharmanka abroad and eventually to settle in Glasgow...
...possible" earned him a lesson on how far that could be in the Soviet Union: a coal mine in Russia 's Arctic north and an army call-up. A stammerer since childhood, Bersudsky was bullied by his colleagues, and he finally stopped speaking entirely. At the Sharmanka gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, Bersudsky now exhibits 3-D expressions of his inner torments and the life he led as an artistic outcast after his return to Leningrad in 1961. He began carving wood and tinkering with junk and in 1967 produced his first kinetic sculpture of a barrel-organ grinder. "When...