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...this just great?" crooned the Groaner. "Isn't this just wonderful?"-as a 50-m.p.h. winter gale whipped across California's Monterey Peninsula. One TV tower collapsed completely, and the rest were shaking so badly that the players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur...
Gauguin's instinct for self-dramatization came alive most fully after he settled in Tahiti, where he painted some of his most celebrated canvases, took a Tahitian mistress and fathered two children. He saw himself as "a savage returning to savagery," and he was plainly delighted by the effect of his departure, as described to him in a letter from Europe: "You are at the moment that extraordinary, legendary artist who, from the far Pacific, sends disconcerting, inimitable works, the definitive works of a great man who has, so to speak, disappeared from the world...
Bald, gross, and illiterate Emile a Tae, 64, half-caste Tahitian son of Painter Paul Gauguin, used to let tourists take his picture for a few francs, just enough to keep himself in beer. Now, at London's prestigious O'Hana Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas pictures are bringing from $700 to $1,400 apiece, and he has learned to sign them Emile Gauguin. He has reformed too, says fortyish mentor, Madame Josette Giraud, a French writer who bailed him out of jail several times and put a paintbrush in his hand. When word gets back...
...expatriate U.S. yachtsman named William Albert Robinson, who lives in Papeete and had a touch of filariasis himself, interested Dr. Kessel in a campaign to rid Tahiti of the wormlets. Kessel trained a staff of Tahitian technicians, showed a film that taught natives where the mosquitoes bred-in holes in trees and rocks, in abandoned canoes, in tin cans, rain barrels, gasoline drums and worn-out tires, in coconuts half eaten by rats-and how to destroy the breeding places...
Between October 1958 and July 1959, the gross at Sotheby's was $16 million, including $770,000 for a Peter Paul Rubens (see opposite page), until last week the highest price ever paid at an auction. A Gauguin Tahitian scene, owned by George Goodyear of Buffalo, fetched $364,000. Cezanne's Peasant in a Blue Blouse got $406,000; and Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews brought $364,000, the top price ever paid at an auction for an English painting...