Word: tropez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcome as a new acquisition is an undamaged reacquisition, and last week Saint-Tropez' Annonciade Municipal Museum was readying its blank walls to receive 56 canvases heisted last year in one of the Riviera's most daring fric-fracs (TIME. July 28, 1961). Tipped off by an anonymous letter to France's Minister for Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux, police found the robbers' cache stashed away in a dilapidated barn 50 miles west of Paris. The $1,500,000 worth of art, including works by Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo and Bonnard, had come through the ordeal almost unscathed...
...George and great-granddaughter of Napoleon's eldest brother Lucien, who shook off her royal trappings and reputation as "the greatest heiress in France" to become a lay psychoanalyst (she wrote a book analyzing Edgar Allan Poe) and translator of her close friend, Dr. Sigmund Freud; in St.-Tropez, France...
...around lazily but spectacularly in a one-piece bikini and a leopard-spotted water mattress. Click! went a distant telescopic-lens camera, and France's sex kitten arched her back ever so cautiously. Her latest beau, Cinemactor Sami Frey, who has been a summer guest at her Saint-Tropez villa, recently blasted off another shutterbug with buckshot as he snapped away at BB from the rushes along the shore...
Spain's Costa Brava, In five years ago, is Out now, though the Costa del Sol is still O.K. Out are St.-Tropez and Jamaica. In are Barbados, the Greek islands, and Sardinia, where the Aga Khan (very In) is building a resort. Southampton is In; Newport is coming back In fast, partly because of the Kennedys, who were married there at Jackie's mother's shorefront house...
Worse yet. to hold the cops at bay the artnapers had coolly let it be known that they possessed still a third trove of stolen paintings-57 works lifted last July in St.-Tropez. The St.-Tropez paintings had proved to be uninsured and hard to get ransom for, but the gang's threat to destroy them stopped police from interfering with the Cézanne extortion...