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...passed his 89th birthday at his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera, Author Somerset Maugham demonstrated the art of growing old realistically. "I am a very old party who has arrived at an age which is no longer amusing," he gruffed. "On this birthday I really have no wishes to make...
When he graduated from Oxford in 1943, Poet Philip Larkin dreamed of becoming a famous novelist and living on the Riviera "like Somerset Maugham." But after two novels flopped in Britain, he decided he was better suited to poetry, confessing later: "It's like moving to a much smaller house after finding you cannot afford to keep up the mansion of your dreams." Larkin has become one of England's finest poets, but he may have deserted his mansion too soon. The second novel, A Girl in Winter, has now been published in the U.S.; and while...
Winston Churchill, hale and hearty as ever, celebrates his third birthday of the year from the French Riviera. He notes with pleasure that the "Western Alliance of English-speaking and other sorts of peoples" remains firm. De Gaulle rushes to the Riviera and slaps Churchill's face with a white glove. A new strain in the Alliance develops. Dean Ford, receiving the news in the middle of a Faculty meeting on granting Ph.D.'s to Advanced Standing undergraduates, chuckles, and leaves immediately for France. "What a lark," he tells reporters at the airport...
...welcome as a new acquisition is an undamaged reacquisition, and last week Saint-Tropez' Annonciade Municipal Museum was readying its blank walls to receive 56 canvases heisted last year in one of the Riviera's most daring fric-fracs (TIME. July 28, 1961). Tipped off by an anonymous letter to France's Minister for Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux, police found the robbers' cache stashed away in a dilapidated barn 50 miles west of Paris. The $1,500,000 worth of art, including works by Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo and Bonnard, had come through the ordeal almost unscathed...
Some of the shrewdest German buyers are flocking to the "Irish Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price...