Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jules Semon Bache, broker and bon vivant, laid away his millions so thriftily that when he died last fortnight (TIME, April 3), U.S. art lovers found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art collection. Last week the 63 Bache (rhymes with aitch) paintings were still hanging in the Bache Manhattan mansion, which the collector had donated (1937) to house them, where they were on view upon application. When the war ends, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will house the approximately $12 million worth of Bache paintings where everybody can see them...
Died. Jules Semon Bache, 82, art-collecting, art-bestowing Manhattan banker and broker; after a brief illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. The monocled, well-preserved bon vivant took over his uncle's Wall Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...bravura that was once described as "something out of the pages of Dumas," the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) extrovert has a selling power that could make Eskimos buy iceboxes. He looks like, and has all the making of, a successful American business man, an elegant European bon vivant, a world-famous orchestra leader, a magnetic political boss. But from his thin lips sometimes come words of genuine wisdom, and around his dark eyes are shadows of more experience than a playboy knows...
Under rough and rugged Major General Lewis H. Brereton, the Ninth was formed in the China-Burma-India theater, moved to the Middle East when Rommel banged at the back door of Egypt.* It supported the British Eighth Army as it advanced westward, from El Alamein to Cap Bon...
...Butlered Bon Ton. Last week Lucius made news again. Snoot If You Must is autobiography in the sense that Lucius' life, as reported by Author Beebe, has consisted chiefly of eating and dressing in public. The book reports Lucius' ad ventures with "butlered bon ton." Its index of exquisites runs from Abdy (Lady lya) to Zerbe (Jerome). It lists almost every gastronomic heaven from Manhattan to Hollywood, supplies food for every thing but thought...