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Last week the mystery was dispelled. Whitemarsh Hall had been the hideaway for the priceless art treasures of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded by an electric signal system wired to a specially installed power plant in the house. They were also guarded by 13 picked Metropolitan staff members, all family men doomed to temporary bachelorhood, who moved...
Playboy Prince. Umberto's kingly education was a gaudy business. As a playboy princeling, he had some un-engaging ways: he was known to spit on the floors of houses where he was guest, grind his heels into priceless tables, organize treasure-hunt games and insist that every prize be a princely bauble. In Rome in 1930 he married Marie-José, only daughter of Belgium's beloved King Albert. Umberto's subsequent infidelities were on a royal scale. Marie-José wept, but did not go home...
...claimed relationship, Grandpa was a tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...
...have run into painful decisions on when a shrine ceases to be a shrine and becomes an enemy artillery observation post (see p. 56). When the Allies approach Rome the eyes of the Christian world inevitably will be upon them, asking the mute question whether the city and its priceless antiquities must be left in rubble...