Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Pensée went to London Dealer Edward Speelman for $201,600.
Underground Village. At Kuning-tou, on the northwest tip of the island, I found a village of 2,000 people virtually deserted. Three weeks ago the streets were full of children, pigs, chickens and ducks. Now the pigs snort angrily in their concrete pens, the chickens scatter hysterically at the...
Personally, I made no attempt not to look like a foreigner and was approached a score of times on the street, often near the big hotels that all have uniformed militiamen standing outside them. Sometimes people just wanted to talk, sometimes to buy dollars. (I tried to find out what...
Died. Martin L. Straus II, 61, adman and business tycoon, chairman (1940-49) of Eversharp, Inc., who started plugging his pens and pencils in 1940 on radio's quiz show Take It or Leave It, began a seemingly unstoppable inflation when he stunned incredulous listeners by presenting a game...
The celebrated shrine at Lourdes is the No. 1 pilgrimage center in Christendom, but the town of Lourdes exploits the shrine's fame with a brazen tastelessness that is alarming French churchmen. Chief offenders are the dealers in pious objects. In Lourdes, a Pyrenees town of only 16,000...