Japanese spending spree reshapes art and markets across Europe
Japanese buyers dominate European art auctions and luxury markets, driving up prices for impressionist paintings and race horses as the yen strengthens and the dollar weakens. Christie's opens Tokyo office next year, Sotheby's films in Tokyo, and Japanese bidders win major European sales, including Renoir portraits and Newmarket horse auctions.
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Tokyo
Texas
U.S
Japan
France
International Herald Tribune
Amsterdam
Christie’s
London
Fine Arts Auction House
Sotheby’s
Christie
Renoir
Madame Milhouard
Winston Cigarettes Test Five Quality Checks
A promotional copy explains five simple tests to judge cigarette quality freshness and taste using Winston. It advises sniffing for rich vintage leaf aroma aging in wooden casks, feeling for freshness in handling, and testing flavor without lighting to assess tobacco richness and the Filter-Blend with the white filter.
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Winston
Light It Does It Burn Evenly Test
A test asks if a cigarette burns evenly when rolled fresh and packed full. It asserts Winston brand burns evenly and draws easily, challenging readers to compare their own brand performance.
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Winston
Oklahoma Apology Over Scholastic News Student Rights Controversy
Officials apologize after a Scholastic News Citizen issue for fourth and fifth graders drew protests in Woodward Oklahoma City and statewide. The material raised student rights under the Constitution and featured images and phrases sparking parental and educator concern.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Scholastic
Young Citizen
Melvin W. Barnes
Scholastic News Citizen
U.S
Woodward
Okla
Leslie Fisher
New York
David Hall
Mary Jane McKlvain
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