Word: riviera
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...Charming Man." Wilson knew that Maugham was considering selling his collection a year and a half ago, but when he visited Maugham's Riviera villa, he tactfully avoided even mentioning the fact. Sure enough, when the novelist finally made up his mind, he sent for Wilson to visit him again. "Wilson is a charming man," says Maugham's longtime secretary, Alan Searle. After only two days of quiet negotiating, Maugham himself declared: "I wouldn't trust my pictures with anyone else...
...February 14 of last year, an anonymous caller told the police to be on the lookout for a letter that contained a railroad baggage check which led to the recovery of 20 modern paintings, worth $600,000, stolen from the Riviera's Colombe d'Or Inn in St.-Paul-de-Vence on April Fool's Day, 1960. Last week, la belle téléphone rang again, with even more spectacular news...
...fireworks were imported from the Riviera. The chartered jet flew in from New York with a cargo of famous stars and freeloaders (a redundancy in part). Zsa Zsa was there, and so was Fashion Model Cristina Paolozzi, famed for her recent bare-breasted exposure in Harper's Bazaar, and now doing penance in the form of a needlepoint sampler that reads NUTS TO YOU ("For Mother," she explained). For dancing, there was Society Bandleader Meyer Davis ($7,500 for four hours of music-$1,000 per hour overtime); for super glamour there were the Prince and Princess of Windisch...
...John Knowles's second novel might seem more nearly satisfactory if his first, A Separate Peace, had not been flawless. His gaze at the soul's dark places is still direct, but in the shadows of the present novel, about the beach lizards of the French Riviera, there is both far less and far more than meets...
...paint-napers damaged their loot, and Thompson says the insurance company owes him $70,000 to cover the restoration. The company argues that $7,750 would be ample. At that, Thompson was better off than the lenders to last July's Cézanne show on the Riviera, whose eight canvases have still not turned up, and the National Gallery in London, which is still short one Goya, the $392,000 Duke of Wellington...