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...probably war loot, and Topic Mimara kept it (where else?) in a Zurich bank vault, while he lived (where else?) in Tangier. It was stored with a mass of fakes and rubbish that he also wanted to sell to the Met. It was very expensive at $600,000, an unheard-of price for a medieval object 20 years ago. But as Hoving reasoned, with the delicate sense of public relations that would mark his career at the Met, "Medieval art might be accorded a certain cachet by the expenditure of a stratospheric sum." Other museums, especially British ones, were after...
...Yard, began last February, when locker and shower areas on the first floor were converted to office space and athletic equipment was cleared from the second floor to make room for a new dance studio. Workers filled in a basement-level pool and converted it to a temperature-controlled vault...
...come-hither voice purrs with enchantment. The precision of Colbert's timing would make a watch blush. Her role is that of a hugely successful writer of mystery thrillers and the owner of $15 million worth of paintings. In one wall is a camouflaged walk-in vault that can snap to and be drained of oxygen in 17 seconds. Don't bet that it won't be used...
Apart from the vault, the plot machinations include blunt instruments, arson and grotesque fright masks, but none of these prove either droll or scarifying. In the end, the old lady still rules her roost, but Claudette Colbert, alas, falls victim to the play. -By T.E. Kalem
...School. He was never Duke's most popular alumnus on campus; in 1954, when he was Vice President of the U.S., the faculty voted against awarding him an honorary degree. Since 1974, the year he resigned as President, the school has kept his official portrait in a vault. But this summer Duke President Terry Sanford, a former Democratic Governor of North Carolina, began trying to acquire Nixon's presidential papers...