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...young Parisian, bored with his job and his mistress, ships aboard a yacht owned by a rich and beautiful woman who has but one aim in life: to find a sailor from Gibraltar, who she feels was the love of her life. As she remembers him, he was no ordinary navvy: at 20, when they had their stormy affair, he was fleeing French law for "the murder of the American ballbearings king, Nelson Nelson." Though she has had no word of him in years, her yacht, with its crew of seven, seeks him in ports on the seven seas without...
...likely description of the sailor. She is compelled to answer as if to the call of sirens, but scarcely cares when instead of her beloved she finds a swindler in Dahomey or a filling-station attendant in Sete. The same indifference is adopted by her new lover, the young Parisian, who comes to realize that their only true bond is their endless quixotic search. The reader sticks with them both, if only to drink the whiskies, hear the conversation, and see the sky and the coast as they shimmer from the yacht...
...technique used to reproduce Ernst's painting is called "kamagraphy," and its invention was announced last December by an enterprising Parisian combine headed by Engineer André Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special press, destroying the original in the process (color lithographs, by comparison, can be printed as many as 500 times, though first-quality press runs, signed by famous artists, are normally limited to between 30 and 250 prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French...
Today, though the company shies away from such freak items as smoked whale steak and chocolate-covered ants, its goodies run the gamut from terrapin stew to mushrooms grown in Parisian caves and frozen coquilles St.Jacques in real shells. Its private brand of Kentucky bourbon is a best seller in New England. Despite its gourmet eminence, S.S. Pierce ran into trouble when supermarkets began stocking rival specialty foods to lure the well-to-do. Sales have stagnated around $35 million a year for a decade, and profits have lately dwindled to the vanishing point. Incoming President Williams hopes to beef...
...Padlocks. This remarkable museum (see color opposite) houses 12,000 examples of the smithy's cunning, assembled by a minor Parisian nobleman named Henri Le Secq des Tournelles and his father Jerome Le Secq des Tournelles, between 1870 and 1921. Henri gave his collection to the city of Rouen a year before his death when the city fathers offered to house it in the 15th century Church of St. Laurent, which had been secularized and abandoned during the Revolution. To the younger Des Tournelles, iron collecting was a kind of madness. His wife divorced him over it, his fortune...