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...when U.S. art galleries were the private preserve of the plutocracy, an $18-a-week office worker named Edith Halpert ventured uneasily into the domain of Manhattan Dealer Joseph Brummer, offered him a down payment on a then $650 Seurat. Growled Brummer contemptuously: "Go to Macy...
When war came. Léger's refusal to join the Vichy regime brought him disgrace and exile to the U.S.. where Poet Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, gave him a $45-a-week job collating bibliographies in the stacks. He has lived in Washington ever since; now, with a more lucrative contract from his publisher, he can afford an annual trip to the French Riviera. He never talks European politics in public, though he knew the secrets of 15 years of French diplomacy. His comments were saved for Chronicle, his latest work, which ends: "Summit...
Died. Vincent Riggio, 82, president from 1946 to 1950 and board chairman the following year of The American Tobacco Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Born in Sicily, Riggio was a $3-a-week Manhattan pantsmaker at 14, got a job selling Pall Malls in 1905. Possessed of a fluent tongue, an active imagination and a driving manner, Riggio was chosen to introduce Lucky Strikes in 1917, replaced flamboyant George Washington Hill as American Tobacco's president...
...World War I, he embarked on a professional acting career, but soon found himself singing the musical prologues to silent films at Hollywood's old Grauman Theater. On borrowed money he traveled to New York, auditioned for the Met twice before he was signed to a $60-a-week contract. He was just 26, and it was not until two years later that his name hit the headlines in Falstaff...
...approval of a $30 million slum-clearance scheme, to pick up a $4,400 tab for the 1958 remodeling of Jack's Harlem apartment. Jack also admitted that he had lied to the district attorney by saying that his wife paid for the job out of her $100-a-week "table money"-before finally settling on the explanation that Ungar had loaned the money without note or collateral. Indicted on charges of violating the city charter and of conspiracy, Jack declined to take the stand at the trial. But Operator Ungar, granted immunity from selfincrimination, testified that Jack...