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...eyes twinkling brightly, the returned vacationist strode happily into his favorite café, expecting a joyful greeting. The first man to see him shuddered, sputtered and sagged into a chair. An old friend at the other side of the barroom hastily stamped out a cigarette and reverently removed his hat. Madame Labbaye, the patronne, peered from behind a potted palm. "What is wrong?" cried Roger. "Have I lost a child?" Roger couldn't make out the woman's excited answer...
Confused and distressed, Roger raced from the café into another, where he always ate breakfast. A pretty barmaid took one look and shrieked: "My God, it's Roger! But you are dead. They pulled your body from the river and we are all going to your funeral tomorrow...
...each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite café society had seen in a doge...
...Picasso. Barnes followed Glackens to Paris, nosed around junk shops, Montparnasse cafés and studios, haggled with dealers, developed an unerring eye for a bargain. His first Picasso cost him $20, his first Matisse $50; both pictures are now valued at about $20,000. He found a $40,000 Henri Rousseau in a Paris jewelry shop, paid $10 for it. Other of his treasures came higher. In 1942, after 29 years of coveting it, he paid $175,000 for Renoir's magnificent Mussel Fishers at Berneval. At that time, with a collection of some 200 Renoirs, 100 Cezannes...
...Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...