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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born 43 years ago into a wealthy Chicago family (Thor Power Tool Co.), Florsheim was a painfully shy child, channeled all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II...
Happily married, and with an art teaching job to make ends meet, Florsheim still felt and painted misery. His black works found few buyers; he did not mind. "You wouldn't expect someone two years out of college to be made president of General Motors, because you know he...
It remained for the upsurge of postwar prosperity (320 new manufacturing companies in the last decade) and population boom (2,500-3,000 new inhabitants each month) to bring the bloom of art to the desert. Sparking the drive for a new museum were Local Banker Walter Bimson and Insurance...
Lube Job. In Tucson, Ariz., after he was flagged down at a school-zone crossing by an eleven-year-old girl school guard who carefully jotted down his license number, startled Motorist Joe Chin was told: "I'll forget all about it for a quarter."
Installment buying is one of the major causes of the phenomenon, along with the changing habits of U.S. consumers. They no longer hold on to suits, coats and dresses as if they were heirlooms; determined promotion campaigns keep apparel one of the hottest selling items. Furniture, refrigerators, rugs-all once...