Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elisha Kane also found time for love. He had a secret affair with Maggie Fox, a celebrated spiritualist who produced spirit noises by cracking her toes. His letters to her were printed in Love Life of Dr. Kane, now a collector's item...
...eyed Milton Logan grew up in Brooklyn, became successively a lunch wagon manager, a janitor, a hotel clerk, superintendent of an apartment house owned by wealthy, impulsive Cortlandt Field Bishop, in whose favor he quickly rose. Realty-man Bishop was also an art collector. In 1923 he bought the American Art Association for $500,000, later got its chief Manhattan (and U. S.) rival, the Anderson Galleries, for another $500,000. In October 1929 he merged them...
...business went to hell in the Depression. But Collector Bishop was rich enough to stand the Galleries' losses, ready enough to leave its conduct to President Hiram Parke and Vice President Otto Bernet. When he died in 1935, sales were picking up again. But two years later his beneficiaries, Widow Amy Bend Bishop and Friend-Secretary Edith Nixon, set up a new regime and made Employe Logan, who stood high in their graces, secretary-treasurer. Hiram Parke and Otto Bernet resigned. Most of the Galleries' experts, auctioneers and appraisers resigned with them...
Died. George Eumorfopoulos, 76, English-born Greek art collector who gave his priceless Oriental and Chinese ceramics, bronzes, sculptures to the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum for a paltry $500,000 (TIME, Jan. 28, 1935); in London...
Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke. Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs...