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...Rockefeller Jr. paid less than $150 for one of his pictures (see p. 33). Kane loved Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh was proud of him. Seven years after his art career had been established, he died at 74 of tuberculosis, leaving his widow about $5,000 in cash and a pile of pictures that are now worth as high as $1,500 apiece...
...peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye...
...opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
Pieter Vos was a sallow, bandy-legged little city boy, who hated his menial job and poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately...
...consultation salon on the second floor, the patient walks over thick pile turkey red carpets, passes paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck. In the consultation room are some of the mementos which make Dr. Sheehan, a lonely man, happy-Christmas cards from his good friends King Carol of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians, Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during...