Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin...
Sued for Divorce. By Cinemactress Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, cinemaspirant, one time broker; almost two years after their marriage (for each the second), 14 months after its annulment, 13 months after their remarriage, nine months after the birth of their daughter ; in Los Angeles. She charged extreme cruelty, asked for custody of Cheryl Christinia Crane, sought no alimony...
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...
...their fabulous father Lewis, bankrupt jeweler who during the '20s ran a shoestring up to the $23,000,000 Select Pictures Corp. The brothers later made their own film fortune, separated in 1929 when Myron began his rise to key power as filmdom's No. 1 talent-broker...
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...