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Graves was undeterred by the fact that the painting belonged to Collector Manfred Selig, a dry-goods merchant who has made a specialty of collecting Northwestern artists since he emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1940. The alleged Graves was a recent acquisition (price: $200), had been lent to the gallery as part of a show of his collection. Before stalking out of the gallery and heading back to Ireland (where he now lives), Graves scribbled a note to Selig: "I'm outraged that these fake 'Graves' paintings are getting into good collections such as yours...
...force, the infantry, the surface warships, and submariners, the merchant marine-all have had their share of glory in the histories and novels of World War II. A noticeable gap is the one left by the men who fought in tanks. They have been mentioned, but seldom in a starring role. Yet their part was often crucial, and their death was often the most fearful-with the victims trapped in a flaming pyre that offered no escape. In Brazen Chariots, a South African major of the British Army, who fought in Greece and later in North Africa against Rommel, tells...
Only 14 years ago such a treaty would have been unthinkable, and that it would be signed for Japan by Kishi, inconceivable. Then, Japan was a nation in ruins: a third of its factories had been leveled by U.S. bombers; eight of every ten ships in its merchant fleet lay at the bottom of the ocean; its exhausted population faced starvation. And Kishi himself was cleaning latrines in Sugamo Prison while awaiting trial as a war criminal. Defeat was so complete and catastrophic that the Japanese seemed to take an almost perverse pleasure in the totality of their humiliation. "Shigataganai...
...Macmillan and Lady Dorothy, the fun came in strolls through Accra's colorful street markets, where mobs of merchant "mammies" screamed "Akwaaba" (welcome) and jovially spread bright kente cloth on the streets for the Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...
...slowly being crushed by subsidized competition. Says he: "Subsidy is a common practice today, particularly in the field of transportation. Billions have been spent in the construction of airports for the use of the airlines. This is a subsidy. Hundreds of millions have been spent to maintain the merchant fleet, privately owned. This is a subsidy. For the benefit of the automobile and truck user, $93 billion has been spent on the highways, of which only $45 billion has come back in user charges. The balance is subsidy...