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There are five Rembrandts, the most valuable being a famed portrait of an old man painted in 1660, when Rembrandt took to using a knife blade and brush end instead of the straight brush technique. "I had to buy it in a hurry," Hofer said with a smile, "because Hitler's buyer was also there [in Paris], and he could have outbid...
...Hammer & Sickle flag was flying on Lee Mansion, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, when Molotov paused for a brief rest and brush-up after his flight from Moscow. Then Mr. Stettinius took him over to meet President Truman for the first time. As always, Molotov had to speak through an interpreter. When Stettinius and Molotov emerged, they were not smiling. From the President down, Mr. Molotov's U.S. hosts were prepared to look their guest in the eye, be tougher with him than they had ever been before. So were the British. It was, they...
Units of Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on the west coast of Negros, fourth largest of the islands. One column drove northeast to capture the capital, Bacolod, another moved to a junction with Filipino guerrillas...
General Douglas MacArthur's troops were getting on with the trying job of reclaiming the Philippines. This week 55-year-old Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...
...girl laughs at him or some body punches him, physically, intellectually or spiritually, on the nose. Three of the stories collected here (most of them first published in The New Yorker) deal with face slappings, knockouts, punches in the jaw. Thirteen deal with their social equivalents: snubs, cuts, insults, brush-offs and cold shoulders. The others tell of rudenesses, deceits, infidelities or-more often-pathetic pretenses cruelly unmasked...