If you enjoy the various lists of the most successful companies that appear each year in magazines such as Fortune and Forbes , you're going to love the list issued last week by a Washington-based legal publication. Or maybe not. But how about a CD-ROM, complete with pictures of corporate officers, kept on file at the local police station, and a program by which the cops would go door to door and alert residents when one of these characters moved into the neighborhood. Sotheby's , the august international auction house headquartered in London. Bad show, gents.
People can get things wrong.
Nobody is as pure as the driven snow. Still, Child, to whom his customers turned for expertise in little matters such as authenticity, especially in cases where gajillions of toadskins were changing hands, has rather seriously disappointed Sotheby's constituency. Now, before we all lose our marbles, things have been a bit happier in crime's private sector recently. Sadly, Barela was relieved of his duties and is said to now be spending his idle hours shopping for antique chairs. Detectives believe Waddon may have made millions during the last few years, but they can't find it and suspect it's squirreled away in offshore accounts.