Word: banker-sportsman
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...used no initial advertising. Nonetheless, the Detroit papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop is in their New Center Building, close to the General Motors and Fisher office buildings, an area which Banker-Sportsman Charles T. Fisher hopes to develop " into the Rockefeller Center of Detrot" To get Saks, Landlord Fisher made a rental deal contingent on the volume of business done. His gamble may turn out to be a prime investment. With 2,500 Detroit charge customers already on his Manhattan books...
...artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell Harriman. The Marie Harriman Gallery will probably never feel that fear of financial disaster which hangs like a permanent black pall over most of its glittering neighbors...