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...selected from 35 nations, is a catholic spread of styles, quite untainted by politics. The reason for the wide variety is that Carnegie Institute's diligent new director, Gustave von Groschwitz, 58, picked the whole shebang by himself. "Von," former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum, spent the better part of two years routing out his choices...
...Pooped to Swim. Anyone who has ever hooked into a bonefish will never forget that moment. The first touch of steel sends Albula vulpes racing away in water-spraying terror, ripping off 100 yds. or more of line, straightening hooks, breaking swivels, or maybe snarling the whole shebang around a clump of mangroves. A little six-pounder can snap an 8-lb.-test line, and a big one takes all the luck an angler can muster. Recalls Golfer Sam Snead, who set a class record that still stands by catching a 15-pounder in 1953: "I was using live shrimp...
...they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign Minister Hermes Lima with a request for courtesies for the visitors: diplomatic privileges, local transportation, an official reception. And wouldn't it be nice if President João Goulart would serve as honorary president of the whole shebang...
Actually, the expense is not as high as it might seem. Adds Obie: "The whole shebang-lot, tunnel, subway cars, the works-costs us only about $200 per parking space." Other downtown merchants, anticipating the Leonards' bringing customers painlessly into the area, have begun sprucing up their own store fronts to attract as many as they can. The Leonards don't mind, since they have first crack at riders of their private subway...
Invited to attend an oldtime-auto col lectors' association meeting at Winthrop Rockefeller's Winrock Farm in Arkansas, ex-Opera Tenor James Melton accepted, wound up selling his whole shebang of oldtime Americana to the host. Melton's collection, one of the finest privately owned "autoramas" in existence, includes both antique and classic cars, an 1829 steam locomotive, an 1893 steam-driven stage coach, enough other bric-a-brac to extend its inventory to 30 pages. Estimated price on the lot: about $250,000. Rockefeller will house the collection in a special building to be erected...