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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...
...Because silver compounds (e.g., Argyrol) are potent germicides, a black silver-plastic mixture which can be permanently coated about the rims of drinking glasses and bottles was developed by Physicist Alexander Goetz and Bacteriologist Ralph L. Tracy of Caltech. Within a short while after lip contact, the rather decorative rim completely sterilizes itself...
Even Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who owns more Renoirs than the Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa., to inspect an exhibition of antiquated German-American knickknacks. In the barrel-vaulted attic of its knackwurst-colored Town Hall, Norristown held its annual Antiques Show, one of a chain of country-fair dealers' exhibitions that periodically sweep the towns of the Pennsylvania Dutch 'country like an epidemic...
...wait for posthumous fame. In his own lifetime, collectors bought his pictures hungrily at prices that ranged up to $18,102. Today, of the 4,000-odd paintings he turned out, more than half are owned in the U. S. One U. S. collector, terrible-tempered Dr. Alfred ("Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa., amassed the largest Renoir collection in the world...
Thirty-one-year-old, wavy-haired Walter P. Chrysler Jr., scion of Chrysler Motors, has collected paintings since he was 14. He probably owns more modern French art than any U. S. collector except Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Albert ("Argyrol") Barnes. Up to last week, Collector Chrysler had never showed the public how much...