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...sale of the postcard-size Hubert Van Eyck oil [March 25, p. 69], and mention of the advantages of the rare stamp [p. 88], made me check the value of the world's most valuable postage stamp, the British Guiana 1? of 1856. Last year this l-sq.-in. stamp was displayed at Royal Festival Hall in London, insured for a healthy $560,000-so the portable rare-painting market still has some distance to go to catch up with the portable rare stamp...
...work for the Air Cav, the world's most mobile division. Ranging at lethal will all over Central Viet Nam from their 12,000-sq.-ft. home helipad, cut out of the scrub at An Khe, the 478 helicopters and transports of the Flying Horsemen are seldom more than two hours away from an enemy highland unit that tries to mass for an attack. Flying more than 300,000 sorties in seven major campaigns and countless smaller ones, the Air Cav has killed 3,626 Communists since it arrived in force in Viet Nam last August-more than...
...boxcar shortage, at least 15 lumber mills have had to shut down temporarily because their production was far outdistancing their ability to transport. Similarly, because plywood plants cannot ship, the price of standard-grade plywood has jumped by more than one-third (from $62 per 1,000 sq. ft. to $86) in two months...
...previous record for good things in small packages was $4,448 per sq...
...Collector Norton Simon. At Sotheby's in London last week, a Flemish painting of St. George spitting the dragon brought $616,000. Since the oil, attributed to Hubert van Eyck, is the size of a postcard (5| in. by 41 in.), it cost a record $26,552 per sq. in. At the new record's rate, a canvas a yard square would cost $34,411,000, more than 15 times the highest price ever recorded for a painting. A Rembrandt etching, called the "Hundred Guilder" print for the healthy sum it brought in the 1640s, brought an even...