Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to protest against certain errors in your article "Surrealists in Exile" [TIME, April 20]. . . . I point out that I am not exclusively a collector of Surrealist art and that my collection covers every form of nonrealistic art of any importance that has appeared in the last 32 years...
Sample Komroff characterizations: Pilate as a genial, well-meaning Roman lawyer who is constantly having to cope with fanatics; Matthew as a tax collector so harried by his job that Christ's call comes as a welcome relief; Lazarus as a rich young Jewish cosmopolite whose death is caused by a chariot race he entered on the urging of his crony Pilate...
...Washington's tax collector announced that all brass dog-license plates would have to be turned in this year before new ones-of fiber-were issued...
...paying his taxes, one Fred Walker of Alford, Lincolnshire, swore at the tax collector. Last week, under a law passed in 1745, Fred Walker was fined. The law holds that persons who resent paying their taxes may be fined one shilling if they are day laborers, two shillings if they are below the rank of gentleman, three to five shillings if they are gentlemen. Fred Walker's fine: two shillings...
Chicago's progressive artists hope the day of Sanity in Art is waning. One sign: they have found a Chicago collector who doesn't seem to care whether Chicago art is sane or not: he likes it. Advertising executive Earle Ludgin is mighty proud of his collection of Ivan Le Lorraine Albrights (TIME, Nov. 24); he has recently added a batch of Burgs and Bohrods...