Word: argyrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
Collector Alfred (Argyrol) Barnes promptly snapped up Creek, a small painting of two dancing girls in sweeping skirts, one red, one blue, beside a pastoral stream in a green landscape...
...Hired by Albert (Argyrol) Barnes to lecture at his art foundation in Merion, Pa., Russell was ousted when terrible-tempered Mr. Barnes tired of him (TIME...
...court to fight a postponement of his $24,000 salary suit against ex-employer Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Nose Drop King (Argyrol), he listened to Dr. Barnes reciting a list of Greek philosophers, announced to reporters that "he didn't pronounce one of them correctly." Cried Dr. Barnes to the press: "I'll tell you what's wrong with that guy-no I won't either. You might print...
Barnes, the South Philadelphia boy who invented Argyrol, made millions, and settled down to insult Philadelphia society and accumulate paintings, sometimes gets a yen for a philosopher. His favorite, and frequent drinking companion, is John Dewey. In 1940, blaming the C.C.N.Y. furor on "bigoted authoritarians," Barnes hired Bertrand Russell for the Barnes Foundation, an art school connected with the gallery...