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...Believers irked Czars and Communists alike. They were hounded constantly, finally fled to Manchuria's Three Rivers Valley near Harbin in the late 1920s. There they lived peacefully until 1945, farming and hunting tiger and boar. Then the Soviet army marched in to occupy the area, threw 300 of the menfolk into slave labor camps. In 1952 the Chinese Communists, who had taken over, promised the sect a chance to migrate to Paraguay. The Old Believers sold their hunting rifles and farms, only to have the Communist government go back on its promise. But last year Peking finally softened...
...simple, stately autos from another era are moving fast. Last week the Stutzes, Simplexes and Duesenbergs of yesteryear commanded a hotter demand and a higher price than any time since they went out of production. In the nation's major trading post for antique (prior to the mid-1920s) and classic (usually prior to 1942) cars, the automobile pages of the Sunday New York Times, a 1920 seven-passenger Fierce-Arrow was advertised for $2,500 v. $7,250 when new. Many oldsters were worth more than ever. A completely rebuilt 1904 Cadillac went on sale...
...York's Judge Samuel Seabury seemed almost an anachronism in the gay, irreverent 1920s. The son, grandson and great-grandson of clergymen, he saw part of life through the stained-glass windows of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable...
...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
...Children. Heiress to several family fortunes, Collector de Groot lived in Paris' Gare de Lyon hotel for six years, was soon so chatty with art dealers that she was lunching in their back rooms. Her collection is a reminder of what bargains went begging in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Now snug in her own two-room West Side Manhattan apartment, with her collection stored at (and willed to) the Metropolitan Museum, she leaps at the chance to show her best buys, including a Van Gogh self-portrait, a Matisse Odalisque and early Picassos. Says...