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...German soldiers sliced three paintings from their frames in the Grand Ducal Museum of Weimar. Last week the paintings were up on walls again, this time in Washington's National Gallery. On view were a Rembrandt 1643 self-portrait (worth upwards of $750,000), a Gérard ter Borch, one of Rembrandt's contemporaries, and a work by the 18th century German, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Their strange odyssey bespeaks of both the awe and the ignorance that surround great art works. It also suggests that masterpieces, like people, can be D.P.s...
Meanwhile, Osvaldo Ruggieri, who plays Jason, was having trouble with the pants designed for him by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. They were, he thought, too baggy. Whereupon he went out and got a pair so tight he was a sight. When Rouben tinted the pants dark brown, Ruggieri went into a rage. "You ruined them!" he cried. "You dyed them!" "I didn't dye them, I painted them!" huffed Rouben. "I'm a painter, not a dyer!" Moaned Director Menotti: "Why is it that an Englishman is always adjusting his tie, a Frenchman is always checking his pocket...
...private foreign capital. Goulart's free-spending ways had so fanned chronic inflation that the annual increase in the cost of living was nearly 150%. Foreign investors had started paring their spending plans. Many companies had contemplated shutting down and forgetting the whole thing; one, International Harves ter, did just that. Now, only 21 years later, a dramatic reversal is under...
...pushing the bill, Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp seemed more interested in politics than economic policy. Its passage would build Sharp's Liberal Party strength, polish his chances of one day succeeding Prime Minister Les ter Pearson as party chief. As a result, Mercantile, which had existed for ten years under Dutch ownership before Citibank bought it in 1963, is now a bank to be bullied...
...Jerome Weidman into rewriting a badly tooled draft of his forthcoming book, Other People's Money. Cerf also thought up the title for the book, as he did for Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants, William Brinkley's Don't Go Near the Wa ter, and Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate...