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Treating audiences abroad more freely, Soviet commissars of art shipped out for loan exhibitions paintings still considered explosive at home until, in 1954, the ghost of Shchukin rose to haunt them. During a huge Picasso retrospective in Paris, Shchukin's daughter, Irene, demanded back 37 Picassos formerly in her father's collection. In a panic, the Russian embassy dispatched a small black truck to the exhibit, whisked the Picassos off the wall and to safety inside their embassy. Said Comrade Picasso: "After all, what would happen if the Count of Paris claimed the chateau of Versailles...
Link No. 2 came after typhoid from polluted water killed several foreign guests in Calcutta's renowned Grand Hotel and forced it to close. As the onetime haunt of Britain's royalty and India's maharajas became known derisively as the "blackest hole of Calcutta," Oberoi saw an opportunity. He talked the hotel's liquidators into a low-cost five-year lease, although his total resources were $67 in the bank and his mortgaged Simla hotel. He tore out the Grand's rat-infested plumbing, offered typhoid-worried guests unlimited soda water even for washing...
...future Edward VII. an inspection of Cooper Union was a must. As the years went by, everyone from Mark Twain to Woodrow Wilson to Bertrand Russell lectured there. The Union gave Inventor Michael Pupin his start in life; it trained Sculptor Saint-Gaudens. Its library was the favorite haunt of an immigrant boy named Felix Frankfurter. "It was the place." said Frankfurter later, "that first stretched my mind...
True to his Dartmouth brothers, however, Cummings hesitated in giving statistics about how far Peterborough is from Colby Junior College, the Dartmouth refugee's traditional haunt...
What we do in that respect-if that should be what we would do-would be coming back to plague us and haunt us in the days to come. So I say, let's stick together, and continue to work not only for peace but also for peace in conformity with the principles of justice and international...