Ray Scott, an enthusiastic promoter who turned bass fishing into a professional sport by holding a series of tournaments that found television homes on TNN and ESPN, died May 8 in Hayneville, Ala. He was 88 years old. His death at a rehabilitation facility was confirmed by Jim Kientz, managing director of Ray Scott Outdoors, …
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Modern Five-Storey Villa Outside Athens, Greece $3.37 MILLION (2,875 MILLION EURO) Built into a mountain on the steep coastline of Dikastica Bay, this five story house It is located in Dikastika, a small city in the Attica region of Greece, about 30 miles northeast of Athens. Specially built for vendors in 2015, the 5,920-square-foot home …
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BAS ROCK, Evie Wyld’s photo. (Vintage, 368 p., $17.) Wyld’s third novel, “wonderful and disturbing”, haunted by “a sense of impending violence”, is set on Scotland’s east coast near the volcanic rock island from which it is named. As John Williams writes in The Times, he uncovers “the essential, shadowy ravages of masculinity” and the …
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