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...long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been willed to the daughter of Count Guillaume d'Henricourt de Grünne. King Baudouin himself intervened in an effort to keep the work in Belgium. What no one told the King was that Countess Jeanne de Grünne, 28, had long since given up title to the famous work...
Beck v. Beck. First was a gentle coup de grâce to be administered to outgoing President Dave Beck. Fat Dave, once the unchallenged Teamster baron who patted little Jimmy Hoffa on the head, was to be booted into retirement (with an annual $50,000 pension) because of his outsize financial shenanigans, because he had been accused of fleecing a Teamster's widow, and because he had stood in the way of ambitious Jimmy. Bellowed Beck, in an hour-long swan song: "To thine own self be true! I would like to see the man who can stand...
Meanwhile, the Senate got ready to pass its handiwork this week by a generous vote. It was left to Georgia's Dick Russell to administer the coup de grâce in grand style. The South, said he after a post-victory caucus, had decided not to filibuster against the bill as it now stands...
...COUP DE GRÂCE (151 pp.) - Marguerite Yourcenar - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...while the other kids were drawing manikins and animals, I tried to draw thunderstorms." Later on he filled the margins of his schoolbooks with doodles that seemed best to express his feelings. Outwardly, Hartung followed the trend of his generation, haunted the museums in his teens admiring Rembrandt, Matthias Grüunewald and El Greco, began painting in the style of Viennese Expressionist Kokoschka...