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Since 1930 the dictator has averaged $1,000 a day from his salt monopoly. The national lottery, nominally run by his brother-in-law Ramon Savinon, nets $15,000 a month. Brother Anibal makes the mahogany concession worth $400,000 a year. But the slickest parlay is in cattle. The biggest cattle raiser in the Republic, the Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef...
...slickest of U.S. slick magazines was born-along with baseball, Buffalo Bill, the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York's first tattoo parlor and Carry Nation-100 years ago. This week, to show how gracefully it had grown old, it unveiled a centenary self-portrait that managed to appear both candid and flattering. The 348-page Christmas annual that came from the presses of swank, sophisticated Town & Country was the heaviest (2 Ibs. 11½ oz.) issue in its history. It was also the richest, with around $250,000 worth...
Complaint No. 2: Leahy is the slickest recruiter of football talent that ever breathed. In a year when recruiting has reached its frenetic zenith, that is high praise...
Robert Penn Warren, 41, onetime Rhodes Scholar and managing editor of the defunct Southern Review, has written two other novels, neither so good as this, and some first-rate poetry. In all his writing, even at its slickest-and some of this novel is pretty slick-there is a sense of doom and blood on the moon that Warren has gradually shifted into religious terms. Though the title of this book comes from a nursery rhyme, its epigraph comes from a passage in Dante's Purgatorio: "By curse of theirs man is not so lost, that eternal love...
Peacocks & Collectors. Last week the citizens of Antwerp gossiped in Rubens' private apartments, gawked at a gold necklace which Rubens' sexy-looking second wife, Helena Fourment, once wore, mused on some of the Master's slickest portraits and best and butteriest painted goddesses, scanned the formal gardens where ruffed collectors and peacocks once displayed their slow, glistening struts, and dawdled in the 35 ft. by 46 ft. studio where Rubens' assistants had labored to produce some 3,000 paintings signed by Peter Paul Rubens...