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Last summer another Briton named Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas published a stockmarket forecast: The Coming American Boom. The breezy little pamphleteer sold tens of thousands of copies in the U. S. and gave his name to the short-lived "Angas rally" on the New York Stock Exchange. But the boom did not come. So last week Major Angas brought out The Boom Begins...
...seen September Morn in Mantacheff's Paris home, that Mantacheff related how he smuggled the canvas out of Russia. Last week newshawks in Paris found Mantacheff, learned he had sold the painting a year ago for 90,000 francs to Calouste Sartis Gulbenkian, a naturalized Briton, born in Armenia, who made a fortune by wangling a 5% share in the Irak oil concessions (TIME, Dec. 12, 1932). September Morn hangs in his home at No. 51 Avenue Sena. Said Mr. Gulbenkian's secretary: "Please be kind enough to tell the world that Mr. Gulbenkian has no intention...
...double-barreled evening because Sir Thomas Beecham, famed son of a famed pillman, was also making his U. S. debut. Sir Thomas was as athletic a conductor as New Yorkers had ever seen. But young Vladimir Horowitz, with all his stage fright, was a match for the lusty Briton. Horowitz played the Tchaikovsky Concerto with his hands racing all over the keyboard, tossing off trills and smashing out chords as if he were a Rubinstein. Horowitz was 24 then and an instant sensation. But sane critics were chary with their praise for playing that had more flash than meaning...
...publishers who know what to do about it are Richard Leo Simon and Max Lincoln Schuster, who issued Inflation Ahead! at $1. Last summer they snapped up a pamphlet prepared by Briton's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, published it as The Coming American Boom (TIME...
Hardly had the dust settled from the Manhattan opening of the new Frick Art Reference Library fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 21) than the donor found herself last week deeply involved in hot and noisy litigation. James Howard Bridge, a white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator...