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...Dovunque al mondo lo Yankee vagabondo si gode e traffica sprezzando rischi. Affonda l'ancora alla ventura...." ("Everywhere in the world the roving Yankee takes his pleasure and his profit, indifferent to all risks. He drops anchor at random...
...also made his presence felt as an art dealer. Since the Bellagio opened three months ago, Wynn has sold a number of pieces from the late 20th century: a Jasper Johns, a Lichtenstein, two Warhol pieces and Rauschenberg's The Small Red Painting, which purportedly went to billionaire publisher SI NEWHOUSE. "He has got rid of quite a few 20th century paintings and is starting to go into the Renaissance," says ALAN FELDMAN, Wynn's spokesman. In fact, he has added a Rembrandt, a Rubens and a Renoir. To those surprised by all this commerce, well, it is Vegas...
Korean golfer Si Re Pak begins play at the Du Maurier Open in Windsor, Ontario. The lady has been outperforming even Tiger this year, shooting the lowest round in LPGA history, and this weekend she could become only the fourth woman to win three major tournaments in one year...
...mail circulating around the Net, entitled "My Carreer as Editor of The New Yorker," Slate editor Michael Kinsley says Conde Nast chief Si Newhouse initially asked him to edit the weekly. But in a late-night phone call the magazine mogul retracted the offer, asking Kinsley to say he'd withdrawn his name. Kinsley, a former Crossfire host, at first agreed to keep quiet about the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't almost job, but then, Kinsley writes in his e-mail, "on reflection... I decided I was not inclined to do him the favor of not discussing...
...acquisitive Middelhoff picked up Random House as if it were a souvenir. Last fall he came to the U.S. to study English and learn about the American publishing industry. At a 70th-birthday bash for Si Newhouse, he mentioned to the birthday boy that if Advance were ever interested in selling Random House, Bertelsmann would be interested in buying. A week later the clandestine deal, code-named Project Black, was under...