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From a wealthy gringo named Everett Sholes. who owns one of Cuernavaca's most sumptuous homes, they took a deposition that told of his illegal detention by state police on charges never specified. He had been threatened with deportation, confiscation of his property, and a ruthless investigation of his closest friends. At that point two other local Yanquis turned up at police headquarters-by coincidence, they claimed-and offered to square things without unpleasant notoriety. They did. at a cost of $20,000. "I asked my family in the U.S. to send me the money." said Sholes...
This week the reassembled tapestry went on view at the Metropolitan Museum's medieval showroom, The Cloisters, of which Rorimer is director. The tapestry, a sumptuous rectangle 30 ft. long by 11ft. high, has been named The Glorification of Charles VIII, King of France from 1483 to 1498. The detail reproduced on the opposite page, less than a third of the whole, shows the magnificence that the medieval artist, believed to have been Jan van Roome of Brussels, put into his work...
...critics greeted Gunn's latest effort with wintry disdain. But the public found his royal portrait even more of an attraction than Winston Churchill's four cheerfully unskilled contributions to the R.A. show. Gunn's work is nothing if not skilled, and it is as sumptuous as any chocolate-box cover...
...arose 5:30, breakfast 6 a.m. Departed for the airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee and cakes. Very sumptuous, but I'm afraid will not whet our appetites for the big luncheon at the mess hall...
...Mussolini's Fascists and seized by the Communists after the Allied liberation. Up to now, it has been allowed to stay in Red hands. Included in the property tentatively slated for seizure are the presses on which the Communist daily L'Unità is printed, the sumptuous headquarters of the CGIL (Communist-run labor federation) on Rome's Corso d'ltalia, a large number of municipal Communist headquarters, numerous seaside resorts, gymnasiums, athletic fields, movie houses. In some cases, the Communists have paid nominal rent or purchase prices, which may make seizure legally difficult or impossible...