Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great powers, the United States possesses the oldest, the most original, and just about the most authentic naive painters," admitted Paris' Figaro Littéraire with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus during a six-week showing, and in London the Sunday Times commented admiringly: "We seem here to be offered the image of a vanished...
Colonel Garbisch, a West Point graduate and onetime All-America center who made a fortune in the grocery-products business, is not surprised by Europe's response to his paintings. Neither is his wife, whose father was the late Automaker Walter Chrysler and whose brother, Walter Jr., is a collector of note. "Europeans had never had the opportunity to see this kind of art before," she explains. The Garbisches bought their first naive paintings to decorate their country house on Maryland's Eastern Shore, then fell in love with them. "I guess it's because they have...
Robbie was the only big-city boy. He lived with his widowed mother in Toronto and played serious guitar at twelve. Richard was the only reluctant musician in the group. His father, a Chrysler mechanic in Stratford, saw to it that he had piano lessons. But he hated practicing?until he learned he could attract girls by playing in a band...
...facing court action reads like a Who's Who of big business: U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Mobil Oil, American Zinc and Monsanto, to name a few. Under his guidance, Illinois recently joined a number of other states and cities in a Federal Government suit against General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other vehicle makers. Scott wants the Government to force the auto industry to install antismog devices on all cars and trucks dating back to 1953. In late November, charging that "the exhaust from one jet is equal to the exhaust emitted from a thousand cars," he moved against...