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...stealing of art has become such a popular pastime with the highbrow underworld that it has also become-as news, at least-a bit of a bore. But last week's heist from the respected O'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...
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma...
...Somerset Maugham, 88, broke a long silence on his only marriage - an eleven-year affair with Interior Decorator Syrie Wellcome. As Maugham tells it in Looking Back, it was a painful episode. Married in New Jersey in 1916 after a two-year love affair - and a year after Syrie bore him a girl, their only child -they hit it off miserably. He found marriage a kind of human bondage, soon was demanding the right "to go and come when I liked." She took two lovers- "I knew them both and had a very poor opinion of either," sniffed Maugham...
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet, under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma...
...dime-sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus. The tube's outer layer is a vacuum insulator; the innermost bore carries liquid nitrogen supplied at -196° C.; the middle layer is for warmed and gaseous nitrogen to escape...