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...PICASSOS, with text and photographs by David Douglas Duncan (270 pp.; Harper; $24.95). Art's most illustrious living grandee has permitted Photographer Duncan, a friend and worshiper, to photograph some 500 paintings, drawings and collages that he keeps in his villa on the French Riviera. From this treasure trove, Duncan photographed 103 in color. His text conveys a sense of intimacy, largely by the "I said to Picasso" method...
...antique magazines, cardboard cartons and discarded papers littered the room. The scene of this disarray was not Ye Olde Antique Shoppe, but the paneled office of White House Curator Mrs. James N. Pearce, head huntress for Jackie Kennedy in her campaign to turn the White House into a treasure trove of Early Americana...
Back in New York at tour's end, the journalists plundered Macy's, came away with a trove of women's blouses, skirts, dresses and lipstick. Kraminov bought lipstick in nine different shades ("We have lipstick in Russia, but only one color"), and at a final dinner in honor of the visitors, Viktor Cheprakov of Kommunist magazine proposed an old Russian toast: "To my wife, my girl friend, and the girl I have not yet met-who is the most important. I have bought gifts for all three...
...deciphered part of their choreographic language, reported that scout bees use different dance steps to tell a swarm of workers the location of a nectar trove and the richness of the find...
Nikita Khrushchev sent a treasure-trove of American goods to his ship and flew home to Moscow. The Pittsburgh Pirates carried the World Series into history...