The frustrated art lover spent long afternoons visiting museums, galleries and artist's studios, dealing in the odd painting by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

ECONOMIST: The

It would be odd if he never visited his loyal henchman Gervaise de Rait.

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Captain's log: We know them primarily as a faraway voice through an airplane's intercom system, imparting the odd gag or directing our attention to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on our left.

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London - Captain's log: We know them primarily as a faraway voice through an airplane's intercom system, imparting the odd gag or directing our attention to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on our left.

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Also included are odd, piquant works from the Smithsonian Institution, by Eyre de Lanux.

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He has rollers in Havana make him cigars with Pele de Oro tobacco and, in the 50-odd trips he's taken to Cuba since that drive in the country, he's ordered more and more and has had bands made for them bearing his name.

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