Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Also lost in the crash: 15 abstract paintings and drawings by the late Arshile Gorky (TIME, Feb. 23) that were en route to Los Angeles for an exhibition. Recovered from Alton Jones's effects: $55,690 in cash (including one $10,000 bill), another $7,000 in traveler's checks. Business associates of the free-spending Jones were not surprised...
Scarcely more than a decade ago, Hartford was a hapless little rich boy, born with a silver cash register in his hand, who rang up No Sale with every transaction in life. Like a busy householder trundling down the aisles of the A.& P. on a Saturday afternoon, he wheeled the sheeniest photographers' models through the aisles of the shiniest cafes and the columns of the gossipiest peepholers. He exhibited no head for business, no great ambition to further the family fortunes, no inclination to develop his intellect beyond the requirements of a bachelor's degree at Harvard...
...full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that the art world was misleading the people with "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence," demanded that the public rise up against the "high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo." Bolstering his messianic pronouncements with cash. Hartford got Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME cover. March 31, 1958) to design an ornate museum that was to be a counter to Manhattan's prestigious Museum of Modern Art (which, ironically, was also designed by Stone in his earlier, glass-box period ). Still abuilding in New York...
...Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money to meet the 48-hour deadline. Lionel politely supplied the cash...
Says Salesman Cushman: "I don't think we'll ever be in a position to get all the business in the world-but we can't stop trying. I love to hear the sound of that cash register ringing...