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...Pin Money. The results were startling. His serial number (which was printed on separately and had closed instead of open 45) was the only easily identifiable imperfection. Many counterfeiters soak their money in coffee and crumple it, to make it look older and its discrepancies harder to detect. Hugo's money looked-and felt-so much like the real thing that he always passed it in new, crisp, unwrinkled bills...
...mysterious and insubstantial as that of his paintings. When visitors came he would point to the tangled grass and thickets which surrounded the house and mutter: "I have never explored this land. There must be savage beasts in there." Like the figures in his paintings he was hard to pin down. "It troubles me to talk about my painting," he says. "My mother used to tell me, 'Of God, sprich nicht.' It is the same with...
...only other item found in the room, police said, was a pin of the Yale Skull and Bones Society of which Matthiessen was a member...
...week's end one pin-striped Briton, exhausted by the U.S. hustle & bustle, nevertheless got the point of it all. Said he: "When you think of it, there was nothing very new in what they told us. But what a performance! What zest...
...Fastest pin of the day went to 128-pound Don Keller of Dunster, who took just 55 seconds of the first round to mail Kirkland's Dick...