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...expense accounts to see what the Emerald Isle had to offer. Wave after wave followed -two vice presidents, two merchandise managers, 26 buyers, display men, art directors, photographers, fashion editors. Eleven months, 48 transatlantic crossings, and more than $1,000,000 later, Lord & Taylor has assembled enough Eireana to stun St. Patrick...
Here the vast white silence and un marked snow usually stun first-timers. "Once you've tried this form of opium," said a young lawyer at Courchevel last week, "you must come back for more. You're rather spoiled for the beaten slope. You know then that skiing the trails is just a form of training...
This year's lady tourist, sure to stun the natives, will just as surely bring back with her the lovely smock, hand-painted in the juice from the biddledee nuts that fell from the trees that shaded her patio. It will be a find found in the little store tucked away at the end of the crooked street. But it may seem less of a find back home. What seems perfection itself in the land of bongo and mango has a disappointing and predictable way of becoming not quite so spectacular once past customs...
...manhunt, as the cowboy fugitive rides, tugs, curses and coaxes his horse Whisky up and up through cruel ridge country toward the hoped-for haven of an immense stand of forest. The machines close in again, but a rifle can still foil a helicopter and a rifle butt can stun a stupid, pursuing jail guard...
...throne room of King Charles III in Madrid. No man of his time was a greater master of drama and color, or knew so well how to unlock the secrets of light or to harmonize painting and architecture. Though he was sometimes guilty of slickness, his best paintings still stun the eye. He was the last of the great baroque artists, and it was not until just before his death at the age of 74 that he began to see the work of the new neoclassic artists threaten...