Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gonna Walslca, Polish ex-soprano and husband collector (total fortune of her first four: $125,000,000), got rid of her sixth, Yogi Theos Bernard, but not without costs and regrets. He had provoked her in many ways, said she. First, he had caused her great mental anguish by insisting on living alone with his father in the "penthouse of the gods" (which she had bought for him), then he had tried to force money out of her by1) invoking Yoga powers, 2) "well-nigh choking and strangling me," 3) suing for separate maintenance because of a rheumatic heart which...
...claimed a tax deduction for his dependent mother-in-law for four years after her death. Lustig admitted all this.His only defense : he had voluntarily told the Treasury of the evasions, had been promised immunity if he paid up. The deal had been made, said he, with Internal Revenue Collector William J. Pedrick on March 26, 1945. Retorted Pedrick: there had been no deal. At the time set by Lustig, Pedrick had been attending an Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner-and eight prominent Manhattanites so testified...
...Collector's Items...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, off to Paris, left behind a collector's item in the field of doodlery. Retrieved from his place at a Washington committee meeting was a matchless example of the rose-o window work of the painstaking blastula school, with the later or packing-box influences of neo-cubism only just becoming apparent...
Once he was a shorthand champion who used to take dictation from Bernard Baruch. Now he takes it from nobody. Billy Rose, who is about the size of a Broadway boutonniere, is a self-made showman, songwriter (Million Dollar Baby) and saloonkeeper. He is also a zealous art collector. Last week the bantam Barnum, jack of many a theatrical trade, was mastering a new one. As an offbeat Broadway columnist who pays to be published, he had received offers from two newspaper syndicates who wanted to pay him instead...