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Dealers were not quite so impressed with the prices. The pictures, mostly authenticated French and British 17th and 18th Century canvases with long auction records, were part of the estate of Alfred Henry Mulliken of Chicago, a dealer's delight who paid $75,000 for the Lawrence that fetched $17,100 at the auction. The whole collection cost him well over a million...
After out-Romanoffing the Romanoffs and frowning on every sort of bourgeois endeavor, Prince Mike, alias Harry Gerguson, has sold out on his numerous menage. Those who read with delight the spritely lines of Alva Johnson in The New Yorker, sketching the miraculous biography of this elegant phoney can hardly believe that Prince has gone the way of Channel swimmers and flag-pole sitters by accepting vaudeville contracts and writing his life story for the tabloids...
What a mess this world is in! And with what delight Voltaire and Dean Swift would report its befuddlement! We are in such a state of jitters that our religious leaders are falling for Buchmanism, our industrial, financial and economic leaders solemnly discussing "Technocracy," and our political leaders quarreling about decimal points in beer...
...Abby-Delight was eldest of a big New England brood. Her father, Samuel Flagg, ruled his family with the same dour thrift he used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually...
...means to read. But not just yet. He will take it up someday, with the tragedies of Ben Jonson, and also "Paradise Regained." And Pope. In the eighteenth century the little man in black, with the twisted shoulder and the twisted smile, was the terror as well as the delight of London. A single translation made him rich; he was bribed to write and believed to be silent. Pope had a full quiver, and all his barbs went home. Today he is damned, even by the now enthusiasts for Dryden, and not even with faint praise. The Vagabond in fact...