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...Pasadena's pet cemetery, mourning "mothers" sob as tiny coffins are lowered, a fat man in a sports shirt crosses himself over a grave, and a French poodle comments succinctly on the scene by relieving himself on a headstone marked "Judy Baby-our darling girl...
...Life in California" has long been reserved as a stock headline in The New Yorker for items indicating that something more rich and strange than ordinary human life goes on out there. West Coast Novelist Mary Carter also argues that California, specifically Pasadena, is a special enclave within the Affluent Society -more trouble-free, less wrinkle-prone, where nothing intrudes to clutter up the sunny living space but the quick-disposal doubt...
Teen culture embraces all generations in Pasadena, and Novelist Carter's hero shows how painless is the cure for a small case of doubt in the full, rich, empty life. He is Decker Wells, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a high school senior about to become a freshman at U.C.L.A.. where his major will be "kind of general, maybe I'll end up in business administration." With his fellows he stands "in a lump," distinguishable only by name, weight, hair coloring, and small variables within high-bracket Pasadena youth society...
Then one night in Pasadena, Calif., a German immigrant waiter named Johann Meindl was watching television and heard an art restorer remark that there were many masterpieces hanging incognito on people's walls whose value not even their owners dreamed of. Meindl wondered whether the two pocket-sized paintings (one is 6¾ by 4⅝ in., the other 6¼ by 3⅝ in.) he had been given in 1946 by an old teacher of his in Munich, Fräulein Josephine Werkman, just before her death, might be worth something. He took them to the restorer...
Italy's official lost-art detective, Rodolfo Siviero, flew to Pasadena and verified the find. After showings in Washington and New York, the Pollaiuolos were sent back to the Uffizi. German police, tracing wartime cronies of the Meindls, recovered five more looted paintings (including a Bronzino Deposizione and a Lorenzo di Credi) from an old man in Munich who turned them over on a police promise to keep his name secret...