Word: liechtensteiner
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...chair of poetry, which, as one commentator observed, offers "no power, little work and less money." Robert Graves, the retiring incumbent, picked up the annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
REFUSED FOR LEONARDO, LIECHTENSTEIN TURNS DOWN OFFER FROM NORTON SIMON...
...Forfeit. There was no denying that California Art Collector Simon was interested. Last summer Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard F. Brown, who has counseled Simon in many of his purchases, went to Liechtenstein to examine the prince's Leonardo in the sunlight of the palace courtyard. Simon is no collector to buy a pig in a poke. Before bidding $2,234,400 for Rembrandt's Titus last March, he had the painting gone over by experts; in fact, earlier, when Titus was still privately owned, he refused to buy it because his advisers were not permitted...
...condition of the Mona Lisa. So when the prince's agents approached the meticulous millionaire with an offer to sell it for $7,000,000, he insisted that the price be reduced to $6,000,000 and that he have the right to take it to experts outside Liechtenstein for a complete scientific appraisal. To ensure his good faith, Simon was willing to put up $500,000 as a down payment, or as forfeit, should he decide against buying...
...broke down, the prince's art dealer, Josef Farago, issued a categorical denial: "The prince would not dream of selling the Leonardo." As for the prince, he was, as one to the manner born, off hunting in Austria. Does this mean that Ginevra del Bend will never leave Liechtenstein? Said a Liechtensteinian noble last week: "Eventually some fool may offer $10 million, and then...