Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely in his cunning career had The Saint been so brazenly flouted. At the very moment that the goateed detective of the U.S. comic strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in modern French history: 57 canvases lifted off the unguarded, uninsured walls of the Annonciade Municipal Museum in chic Saint-Tropez. Value of the fric-frac, as a robbery is known in France: $1,500,000, including Matisses, Derains, Dufys, Vlamincks and a pair by Dunoyer de Segonzac, curator...
...Saint's cartoonist was inspired by an actual string of unsolved Riviera thefts -four in the last 18 months. So, probably, were the crooks, who simply turned a key in an iron grille gate, jimmied an inner door, and, in less time than it took to catalogue the loss, cleared the ground-floor walls of the converted 18th century chapel of all but four paintings...
Flics, who raced to Saint-Tropez from Marseille, wondered how the picture poachers expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
...program of recorded music Saturday in Matthews Hall common Room, 3-5 p.m., is Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat, Saint-Saens' Septet for String Quartet, Bass, Trumpet & Piano, Fernando Sor's Estudio 5, 12, 9, Minuetto from Sonata (Opus 22), Largo from Fantasia II, Rondo Allegretto from Sonata (Opus 22), Andante Largo (Opus 5, no. 5), Hugo Alfven's Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody (no. 1, Opus 19), The Mountain King, A Ballet Pantomime (Opus 87), and Bloch's Schelomo...
...cash to compete with the U.S. "If money is so scarce," said Walker, "why do you buy in Switzerland a picture like the Lanskeronski St. George and the Dragon, whose only connection with English culture, so far as I can make out, is that St. George is the patron saint of England? We were anxious to purchase this picture ourselves, but it was too expensive for us. It is an indication of the immense riches you can draw upon when you desire." He might have added one more inconsistency: in 1961 Britain's imports of art have exceeded...