Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While traveling in Europe last July, Bargain Hunter Heil dropped in at a tourist art shop in Florence, asked the proprietress if she had "anything old" on hand. She opened a drawer, pulled out a wooden panel containing a portrait of 16th Century Venetian Doge Leonardo Lore-dano, observed that she had long thought it might be the work of the great Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini. Heil took a sharp look, decided she was probably right and closed the sale on the spot. Later, Italian experts confirmed his verdict, and he shipped the picture...
Director Heil smilingly warned San Franciscans not to expect such luck indefinitely: "We can't always keep buying things at bargain prices." He hoped his bargain display might encourage San Franciscans to chip in and help the museum buy on the open market...
...Chrysler to go to work for the obscure and failing Maxwell-Chalmers Corp. and build it up into one of the big three motormakers. No low figure, paid the managements of the smaller independents that at the same time fell by the wayside, could possibly have been a bargain...
...Last Straw. In Pittsburgh, after 21-year-old Donald McGouldrick had broken in for the seventh time to take or break $500 worth of merchandise. Willie & Sammy's bargain variety store closed out in a "We Quit" sale...
Most important was Phumiphon's coronation. Then, too, five royal relatives besides his brother had died, and only a King could light their pyres. And if everything went well there was to be a royal wedding into the bargain...