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...tradition that a woman at sea is bad luck has long since sunk without a trace. Every boat seemed designed to appeal to the feminine eye for color and convenience, even in the sailboats, the last stronghold of the hornyhanded old salt. Most fetching was a 35-ft. sloop-rigged motor sailer made by that master of motorboats, Chris-Craft. With 563 sq. ft. of sail on a beamy (11 ft.) Fiberglas hull, Chris-Craft's "sail yacht" is powered by a hefty 60-h.p. engine that gives it a cruising speed of six or seven knots. In cabins...
...Years of Wandering. Lanza, often called "the Gandhi of Europe." is a Sicilian-born nobleman who can trace his family history to Emperors of the Holy...
...deal in "everything in paintings and sculptures," provided they are good. Prices range from $100 for a Chadwick drawing to $400,000 for a Cézanne. Whatever the price, a customer can have confidence that his purchase will be authentic: five full-time librarians do little else but trace the history of every item bought or sold...
Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A gently satirical novel about the surprisingly secular problems of a fund-raising Roman Catholic priest, written with fondness and perception but, the Lord be thanked, not a trace of cuteness...
Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A gently satirical novel about the surprisingly secular problems of a fund-raising Catholic priest, written with fondness and perception but, the Lord be thanked, not a trace of cuteness...