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The much mistreated and oft-massacred Indians of Brazil are an endangered human species. Almost their only guarantee of survival is the lands reserved for them by law, largely in the Amazon region, where many of these primitive tribesmen pursue a Stone Age way of life. Under the guise of...
Bernard Reis, 80, Painter Theodores Stamos, 54, and Anthropologist Morton Levine, 53-and his dealers, Marlborough Gallery, Inc. of New York. Alleged purpose of the conspiracy: to "waste the assets" of the estate, which consists of 798 paintings, valued by one expert witness at $32 million.
Two of the executors were found guilty of conflict of interest: Reis because he had been a salaried accountant at Marlborough, Stamos because Marlborough was the dealer for his own paintings. Surrogate Midonick removed the three executors from the estate, voided all contracts between them and Marlborough, and assessed $9...
How can the money be collected? That, said New York Assistant Attorney General Gus Harrow at week's end, "is our headache, not the court's." Both Stamos and Levine are men of modest means, and though Bernard Reis owns a Manhattan town house and an art collection...
For many alumni, a week or so on campus offers the advantage of a relatively inexpensive vacation with a chance to learn something. Curtis Reis, 41, a vice president of Banker's Trust Co. in Manhattan, attended his fourth alumni college at Cornell last month. Says he: "It is...