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Nothing was to distress the trade more than Keating's versions of the work of Samuel Palmer (1805-81), whose moonlit landscapes of Shoreham are among the most sought-after works in English romantic landscape painting. Palmer made some 80 Shoreham watercolors, oils and drawings; Keating made 80 more-mainly by copying details of Palmers and cobbling them together. The first such "Palmer" was sold to a British museum by Colnaghi's, a major Bond Street dealer, in 1965. In 1969 another "Palmer," titled Sepham Barn, went at auction to the Leger Galleries...
...court" briefs accusing Andersen in effect of promoting chaos and anarchy in accounting. The brief of Price Waterhouse & Co. magisterially thundered about "Andersen's evident desire to discredit the F.A.S.B. and substitute its own personal and private decision-making procedures." Said Touche Ross Managing Partner Russell Palmer: "Taking sides and looking to the courts will confuse the issue without resolving...
...proved the watershed year because Arnold Palmer, then the premier trendsetter in golf, turned the trick at Royal Birkdale for his first British Open...
...scrapped his way into the pro ranks after learning the game as a caddie. In 1963, he won the Spanish Open and the same year teamed up with Sebastian to come within three strokes of winning the World Cup. Only a blitz by Nicklaus, who was paired with Arnold Palmer, staved off an American loss in the fog-ridden final at Paris...
...Palmer's decisive victory revived American enthusiasm and restored the British Open to its exalted present day position as the major golf championship that is truly "open to all the world." Last week's event won by America's top pro of the next generation followed by an unvaunted Spaniard once again demonstrated the universal appeal of the world's oldest Open...