Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andres Segovia: Music of Albeniz and Granados (Decca, 6 sides). Segovia's fastidious reading of two Spanish composers-on a guitar as sensitive as a harp -makes this the collector's album of the month. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
Paepcke's Packages. Chief credit for Container's collection went to its sleek president, Walter Paul Paepcke (pronounced Pep-key), 48. Handsome, greying Elizabeth ("Pussy") Paepcke, his wife, rated an assist; an amateur painter and enthusiastic collector (of Picasso, Leger, Degas), she got her sales-minded husband interested in art. By 1937, he was so thoroughly sold that he not only had Container's products designed in streamlined shapes, but decided to advertise them-something unheard of in the paperboard industry...
...England after the Normandy landing, one of the first things he did was to read Faces in a Dusty Picture. This brusque, vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute to his famous regiment. The volume combines two books which had been previously published...
...parent company, the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, C.R.P. last week offered the legal prospect of a haven from the franchise tax levied by the New Jersey tax collector. New Jersey uses the percentage of mileage of a railroad system within the state as a basis for its taxes on the railroad's earnings. Unfortunately, contends C.N.J., two-thirds of its mileage is in New Jersey, while most of its revenue comes from coal loadings that originate in Pennsylvania...
Bigwigs of these corporations live in the far corners of the earth, well beyond the Biddle reach. So he had to content himself with individual charges against seven officials or stockholders near at hand in Manhattan, including Solomon R. Guggenheim, aged (84) copper magnate and art collector, and Clendenin J. Ryan, lieutenant commander in the Navy and grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan...