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...Nonsense." Franz Renn-Rain, 72, an Austrian who years ago abandoned his study for the priesthood to sell art in Italy, denied that he was "the master archaeological fence." Flapping about the palace in a stained silk dressing gown, he mourned: "Nonsense, nonsense, it's a small collection of little things. So I let my friends come to look at my collection. So I let them buy a few things. So I export something to America once in a while. What is all this talk about Etruscan antiquities? Nobody can prove the Etruscans even existed...
...Europe-and perhaps in the world-rose shortly before 8 one morning this week in a modest ranch-style house overlooking the city of Essen on West Germany's Ruhr River. Tall and spare, with steel-grey eyes and finely cut features, he slipped into a dressing gown and carefully selected an expensively tailored dark business suit from his wardrobe. After shaving, he sat down to his usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint...
Enchanted Haze. In Bristol, England, Sunday School Teacher Heather Sheppard, 23, frantically sent a friend back for something more suitable after she arrived at church for her marriage dressed in a beautiful bridal gown, veil and-carpet slippers...
Ingenuous newsmen rushed to tell the world Leona's hoked-up Cinderella story: she had scraped together $45 to buy a gown for the Maryland preliminaries, had come West on a one-way ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
...acquire the social graces and intellectual refinement that characterize people of "quality." Jourdain will live forever as the man who was overcome with astonished glee upon learning that what he had been speaking for forty years was prose. But he is also the man who puts on his gown in order to hear music better; and who, on being asked whether he understands the Latin that has just been spoken, unhesitatingly replies, "Of course. But act as though I weren't acquainted with it and explain to me what it means...