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Steady at Home. Though an estimated 8,000 U.S. skiers will fly to Europe this season. U.S. resorts have no time or need to worry about European competition. This week New England alone braced for 2,000,000 skiers. Booked into The Lodge, at Smuggler's Notch in Stowe, were three Kennedy sisters: Pat Lawford, Jean Smith (with husband), and Eunice Shriver-Teddy Kennedy is expected next week. Already on hand as advance guard was Mrs. Pierre Salinger. Nearby Sugarbush, sometimes referred to as Mascara Mountain, is a favorite haunt of society as well as snow bunnies, the well...
...language of Catalan, spoken in the sunny region on the border of Spain the word "maillol" means "young vine beside the sea." Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol was born in the village of Banyuls-sur-Mer, where his grandfather had operated as a smuggler. At 19 he set out for Paris to become a painter, and though he quickly became disgusted with his classes at the School of Fine Arts ("I painted more apples than Cézanne. This was the time of the apple, a period in which we wasted our time"), he found impressive support on the outside. Gauguin...
...city selections, the guides do an ambitious job on the road and in smaller towns, where they list not a single five-star restaurant but a number of four-starrers, such as La Crémaillère and Nino's in Bedford Village, N.Y.; The Lodge at Smuggler's Notch in Stowe, Vt; LaDoña Luz in Taos, N.Mex.; and the vastly overrated Stonehenge in Ridgefield, Conn...
Right Hand, Left Hand. Bargains, legal and otherwise, have never failed to interest Juan March. Son of a Spanish peasant who was also a small-time smuggler, he was born on the Balearic island of Majorca, had little formal schooling, was largely self-taught. With only a $300 inheritance from his father, he set himself up in the smuggling trade while still in his teens, showed such talent that he soon had a fleet of schooners smuggling tobacco into Spain from North Africa. By 1914 he was displaying the trappings of respectability: his smuggling fleet was so large that...
...native Australia when World War II broke out. He decided to join up to get a free trip somewhere, drove to the recruiting station in a stolen car. During four years as a war prisoner in Germany, his light-fingered ways earned him the post of chief smuggler of escape equipment for his fellow prisoners. Back in Australia after the war, Werry was so moved by U.S. Evangelist Hyman Appelman that he volunteered for the O.A.C., became director...