Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's wealthiest dealers and collectors battled it out. Renoir's Young Girl with Flowers in Her Hat went for $64,000, Van Gogh's The Thistles for $47,000, Fragonard's The Girl with the Dogs for $30,000. The prize piece: Cézanne's simple still life, Apples and Biscuits. When the auctioneer finally banged down his hammer, a French leadmine millionaire wrote out a check for 33 million francs ($94,281), the highest auction price ever paid for a Cézanne...
...easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
Barefoot Boy. In his boyhood, Dick was a source of some family embarrassment. He wouldn't wear shoes. When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...
Titles: In his new three-hat job, Clark becomes Supreme Commander of the United Nations Command, which means leadership of the multi-national army in Korea; head of the U.S. Far East Command, covering all U.S. forces - land, sea and air- in Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea; and chief of the U.S. Security Forces in Japan itself...
...accustomed, I suppose, to seeing piles of little booklets devoted to the cult of science-fiction. Generally, these publications have the appeal of Western pulps, with space ships substituted for Faithful Ol' Pinto, ray-gun for the six-shooter, and a mobile-graced beany for the standard ten-gallon hat...