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Rolling back from a long and convivial supper one evening last week, Randolph Churchill decided to pay a call on his good friend Harold Macmillan. He wanted to show the Prime Minister the huge picture album to be presented to his father and Lady Churchill on their golden wedding anniversary next day. Though his arrival was a trifle boisterous ("Don't worry, boys," he roared at the bobbies as he dumped his heavy package inside the door of No. 10 Downing Street. "There's a bomb inside"), he left 1½ hours later with a message of congratulations...
...Supper consists of a couple of Joe 'n' Nemo's hamburgers at two for a quarter--plus a carton of coffee which serves as mouthwash and handwarmer. Through the window he watches Boylston Street humanity and the Western demise of the sun. Harold has been known to mumble a few words about the weather to either Mr. Nemo or the corner cop--but they are measured words...
...handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions from a softly modulated public-address system, and instead of a bulletin board, they watched a panel of code lights that blinked out the kind of uniform to be worn for supper formation...
...kind of details that always seem to interrupt the textbook version of military precision. The dining room chairs (with under-seat cap racks) had not yet arrived; two colonels and two majors knocked their heads together over the problem of where the cadets would place their caps during supper (solution: on extra tables and under chairs). And the Roman Catholic chaplain was hunting for the culprit who installed a pingpong table in his temporary chapel. "It's organized confusion," moaned one light colonel. "And that's the worst kind...
Unmentioned in the agreement was the fate of Van Beuningen's most sensational buy, a Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...