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Brasilia's patron saint...
Haydn: Four Divertimenti for Baryton, Viola and Violincello (Salzburger Barytontrio; Archive, mono). These four trios, written by Haydn for his patron...
...strange ways with pictures came to be known. An alert lady dealer, who had long been curious about the Gunns' collecting habits, decided to make a bid on their collection. But as soon as she found out the extent of what she had actually bought, she notified Art Patron Stephen Clark, chairman of the board of the New York State Historical Association. Mrs. Gunn's hidden hoard turned out to be a major historical windfall: more than 600 early American paintings that had been painstakingly collected over 25 years-only to be left to rot in an unheated...
Skindiving's patron saint was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, a small town (pop. 4,000) near Bordeaux, which was picked for the occasion by his parents because they had both been born there. No sooner did he enter the world than the squawling Cousteau was bundled up and hustled back to the family home in Paris...
...Though he insists he is no scientist, Cousteau has the warm support of scientists around the world for his ceaseless searching of the sea. Concedes Director Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who calls Cousteau the founder of undersea archaeology: "Cousteau's patron saint should be Ulysses, not Aristotle...