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Picasso's favorite soldier gift came last summer from an art student in a combat unit then fighting southeast of Paris. The soldier motorcycled in to see the artist. Picasso gave him a bath and a drink. The soldier noticed an empty coffee tin on the table; Picasso confessed that he liked coffee but couldn't get it. The soldier ran downstairs, climbed on his motorbike, lit out for the front. In a couple of hours he was back with a big tin of coffee...
...Patiňo, Bolivia's eightyish, enormously wealthy "Tin King," was sued in Manhattan for $500,000 by his godchild, French-born Suzanne Auclert Roth, 24. Her charge: Patiňo, worth an estimated $500 million, had promised her $1,000 a month for the rest of her life as "a social companion . . . always to be at his beck and call." But, she complained, he stopped beckoning-and the payments...
Oxford was the next stop. Q lived in Cardinal Newman's old rooms, bathed in His Eminence's old tin bath. He paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet...
...battlefield came Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, overall commander of the operation. Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour. The task ahead was tough - a process of digging the Japs out of one fortified ridge after another to the end of the island, twelve miles away. But the Admiral was confident. As his amphibious-force commander, Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, expressed it: all the troops have "got their tails over the dashboard and are going to town...
...when the Japs are booted out of the Netherlands East Indies, the coastal ships will repay their high cost. Their job will be to nose into the ports and bring out cargoes of badly needed crude rubber, tin, quinine and spices for the world...