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...Hana Gallery in London was the biggest in British history. Gone from the gallery's choice "Summer Exhibition" were 35 paintings, including works from the recently sold Sir Alexander Korda collection, Renoir's magnificent Andree Assise from the Somerset Maugham collection, and the well-known Tilling the Vineyard, by Toulouse-Lautrec. The market value of the haul was estimated at about $1,200,000, and the thieves were obviously connoisseurs. They not only took the best; they also knew which paintings were too delicate to be cut from their frames and would have to be taken frame...
Just think--all those people, waiting, for close to two thousand years. Like grapes on vine--and now here we are come to weed the vineyard...
...late 19th century, California paid its oenological debt to Europe by shipping thousands of cuttings to France after an epidemic of phylloxera devastated every French vineyard. But the simple transplanting of vines from one country to another does not result in identical wine unless climate and soil are also identical. Thus, despite all this cross-breeding in their ancestry, the wines of the U.S. and France remain notably dissimilar...
...physics at Columbia University under famed Enrico Fermi. Days he measured the mes on; nights he ground out magazine stories and suspense novels (Footsteps Behind Her, Stalk the Hunter}. Finding his dou ble life profitable but pointless, Wilson ended both careers, later moved to Martha's Vineyard as a year-round resident to write "of serious things...
...example of her versatility at communicating a variety of attitudes is her performance of two of the most beautiful songs in all of folk music, Fare Thee Well, with the melody of Dave Gude, a folksinger from Martha's Vineyard, and The House of the Rising Sun, which immediately follows it. Fare Thee Well is a moving declaration of a lover's farewell and vow to faithfulness, and Miss Baez's innocence and simplicity of delivery seem to embody that feminine virtue. Equally convincing, however, is the latter song, a ballad of a fallen woman, sung to a Negro tune...