Word: cadmus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merchant, Sulzberger's knowledge is very much in evidence, but so is a distinct sense of humor. He presents a slippery, multilingual Armenian named Kevork Sasounian, who discovers the original dragon's teeth (sacksful of them), which have been lying in a cave in Asia Minor since Cadmus' and Jason's time. What to do? Why, sell them as potential shock troops to the highest bidder in the cold war world of the 1950s...
...dealer and founder of the prestigious Midtown Galleries; of complications following a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting in 1932, Gruskin earned a reputation as a vigorous champion of contemporary American art; his one-man shows were the launching points for such prominent artists as William Palmer, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arline Wingate and Herbert Ferber...