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Most of the time he was right, though courts have occasionally ruled that he really painted some work he said was faked. One authoritative Milan art critic estimated last week that "sixty percent of the paintings he sequesters are really fakes. Thirty percent he painted himself, and ten percent he painted himself but has forgotten about and is denouncing in good faith...
...said grimly: "You realize that my work has only just begun." Wherever the work takes her, she knows that from time to time she must go home to Laurel again: it is the place where she feels she can be "just Leontyne." After the triumphs at Salzburg and Milan, she recalls, she made a flying visit and encountered a deacon of St. Paul's Methodist Church walking up South Fifth Avenue. "Hi, Leontyne," said the deacon. "Still singin...
...townspeople of little Milan, Mich, watched with satisfaction last week as a work crew cut down the fine old elms and maples around the junior high school parking lot. It was not that they did not love trees. But an odd combination of trees plus bird droppings plus fungus spores plus children had given Milan (rhymes with pylon) a strange epidemic...
During a tuberculosis survey of Milan in 1958, schoolchildren had been given scratches on both arms: one for the tuberculin test, the other for histoplasmosis. This disease, which is like TB in the variety of its effects-ranging from an undetectable, mild infection to fulminating and rapidly fatal cases-is caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum. Unrecognized until 50 years ago, histoplasmosis is still often mistaken for, and mistakenly treated as, TB. It is now known to be especially common in the mid-continent states. But Milan's infection rate turned out to be an astonishing 62%, contrasted with...
...early fall, starlings used the treetops as a dormitory. Their droppings, which covered the ground, have the right chemical composition and acidity for Histoplasma to flourish. In cities starlings usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost is out of the ground...