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...London Economist lent its weight to the Australians' complaint in an article titled "Aboriginals in Fleet Street." "The Queen's otherwise triumphal passage [is being] marred by something for which neither royalty nor antipodean affection can be blamed. The fault [lies] with certain London daily newspapers . . . Several correspondents covering the tour have expressed the hope that they could return at leisure and really learn something. It might pay their employers to help them...
Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the ancestral seat of the Dunbar family...
...pleasant, cozy house where he lived, Marc continued to pursue the pleasant, unruffled existence of a man at peace with himself and the world. He took fat carp from the neighboring river, lent his money freely to all who seemed needy, entertained his friends with home-cooked meals worthy of a Parisian chef, and sent them home glowing with his fine vintages. Not even the postman was allowed to pass Marc's house on his rounds without sampling its hospitality. Most of Marc's friends tried to ignore his grim joke about suicide, but Marc would...
...Italian government also sent one of its prize possessions, the "Tuscan" Stradivarius, which it bought this year for about $50,000 and lent to Violinist de Vito for life...
...next 15 years the Dales spent more than $6,000,000 picking up some 700 paintings (e.g., Renoir's Girl With a Watering Can, Degas' Four Dancers, Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques), housed their collection in a five-story mansion off Fifth Avenue, later lent exhibits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago's Art Institute and Washington's National Gallery, where some 170 Dale paintings now fill nine rooms, hang in twelve others. Always a believer in noblesse oblige, Patroness Dale once discarded her town car because its roof left the chauffeur exposed, designed...