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Before the ultimate lifting, the site of the Mary Rose had yielded a fabulous trove of Tudor memorabilia. Aside from cannons, by 1979 the divers began to bring up boxes of clothing, medicine chests and such objects as carpenters' tools, coins and pocket sundials, the Tudor equivalent of watches. One special find: a shawm, the 16th century forerunner of the oboe. Few other examples of the antique instrument are known to exist. Also recovered were the bones of about 100 drowned men. Scientists are studying them for clues about nutrition and disease in the Tudor...
This is a touch of Mel Brooks rather than Ernst Lubitsch, though elsewhere Korda exhibits a considerable talent for imitating the sophisticated innuendoes of that German-born film maker. Worldly Goods is, in fact, a trove of mimicked styles. Beyond its undeniable entertainment qualities, the book can be read as a clinic on what publishers call a page-turner. The author-editor goes one step further and ensures subliminal product identification, with his name centered at the top of every other page...
Editor Monte M. Poen discovered 140 such unmailed missives, dating from 1945 to 1969, while doing research at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. He shelved his planned project, a biography of Truman after he left the presidency, in favor of this trove of letters, and his decision was a happy one. Strictly Personal and Confidential offers a unique look at a man reacting naturally to enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his "spasms." Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other...
...more than a year, William Agee, chairman of Bendix Corp. (1981 sales: $4.4 billion) has been shopping for a high-technology company to buy with Bendix's $570 million cash trove. But when Bendix revealed last week that it had quietly acquired more than 5% of the stock of RCA Corp. (1981 sales: $8 billion), the ailing conglomerate reacted like a tough old dowager who had just been propositioned, cutting loose with the kind of language not normally used in corporate communications...
...surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions ever undertaken. By week's end, more than $50 million worth of bullion had been recovered. At current prices, the full trove of the Edinburgh will be worth about $85 million. Said Britain's Keith Jessop, 48, who organized the expedition: "That's one in the eye for all those people who've been calling me a blind fool...