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Los Angeles industrialist Armand Hammer, with a little nudge from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), has agreed to show part of his private art collection in Holyoke, Mass., to help raise money to restore the town’s burned Victory Theater. Kennedy persuaded Hammer to show 80 paintings by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Monet and others, Ann Burke, president of Greater Holyoke Inc., said Tuesday. She said the June show in the depressed western Massachusetts city could bring as much as $250,000 in ticket sales and $2.5 million in extra business to the area.