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...EVENING WITH CAROL CHANNING (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Satirical potshots aimed at art (Carol as a Dollyesque Mona Lisa), culture (U.N.C.L.E.'s David McCallum reading poetry), vaudeville (Comedian George Burns and Carol spoofing the old routines) and TV's star-glazed travelogues ("Carol Channing's Los Angeles...
...constant change, is unquestionable. That art gains by truly imitating reality is not. For kinetic art, the dilemma is to surmount the gimmickry necessary to make it move. A question yet unanswered is: Would Leonardo da Vinci have been truer to life if, every minute or so, the Mona Lisa winked...
...most famous of Prince Franz Josef II's 1,500 oils is Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra del Bend, a painting that is strikingly evocative of the Louvre's Mona Lisa. It is the only recognized Leonardo not yet on a museum wall. Such may not long be the case. In a front-page story, the New York Times last week reported that Ginevra* had caught the eye of the prince of collectors. Said the headline: $6 MILLION...
...Simon had even more reason for caution. Of the world's dozen Da Vinci experts, there are still two or three who question whether it is certainly by Leonardo's hand. Then, especially in the lower portion, it is in less than the pristine 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...
...Married. Mona Nasser, 18, younger daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, a junior at Cairo's American University; and Ashraf Marwan, 23, Egyptian army lieutenant; in Cairo...