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Dream Commission. The collection was chosen by Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness, who was given his commission after delivering a lecture at the Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wis., last winter. Acting as cautiously as if he were setting out to steal the Mono, Lisa, Nordness began to round up the paintings, and being a dealer himself was able to get them for his "anonymous client'' at realistic prices...
...Food fats are classed by chemists as saturated if they have hydrogen atoms hooked onto the carbon atoms all along the molecular chain, as mono-unsaturated if hydrogen atoms are missing at one point in the chain, and as polyunsaturated if they are absent at two or more points. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported...
...Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby is worried. His number one man. Paul Sullivan, has been troubled with a relapse of mono that is slowing up his game. Sullivan goes against Yale's tough Mike Neely in a match the Crimson has to count...
...back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued at $2,000,000, the Cézannes were the loot in the most daring art theft since the Mono, Lisa disappeared from the Louvre 50 years...
...slated to play number two this year, but a week after the pre-season ladder was announced, he found out he had an "active case of mono." The effects on his stamina were immediate, and he faltered to fifth on the ladder. He didn't miss any league matches, but playing at "two-thirds of capacity," he was hard put to stay at number five...