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TIL the founder of Chrysler's 14-year-old son hung a small watercolor landscape featuring an inch-high nude in his dorm room. His dorm master, believing that it was improper for a young man to display a picture of a nude woman, confiscated the picture and destroyed it. The painting was by Renoir.

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