Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away the kindest angel for the new wing was Leonard Colton Hanna Jr., nephew of famed President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark"') Hanna, and big stockholder in M. A. Hanna Co. (iron ore, coal, lake shipping, steel), who died last October at 67. Bachelor Hanna became an art collector soon after graduating from Yale ('13), early keyed his private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum 1,075 pieces, ranging from furniture, textiles and glass to such prime paintings as El Greco's Christ on the Cross with Landscape, Degas...
Married. Usher L. Burdick, 79, Republican Congressman from North Dakota for 17 years, lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books; and Jean Rodgers, thirtyish, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington...
...take a walk around the block for a few minutes." On another occasion he was persuaded by British-born Author and Actress Ethel Le Vane to send some silk ties to famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson, whom she and Getty had just visited while preparing their book, Collector's Choice, a well-reviewed narrative of their hunt for art treasures. Getty caught Collaborator Le Vane writing "From Paul and Ethel" on the accompanying card. He immediately demanded that she pay half the cost of the ties, on the ground that she was getting half the credit for the gift...
Says British Publisher Mark" Goulden, publisher of Collector's Choice: "Money is an abstract thing to him, representing vast power. His frugality is a wall he has built around himself deliberately to stave off people who want to have a piece of his colossal wealth. I don't believe for a moment that he gets any enjoyment out of his money. He's just a miser-period...
Junketeer. In Lille, France, Abel Pauchet, 36, a part-time scrap-metal collector, was held by police for cutting a 15-ft. section out of the Lille-Tourcoing telephone cable...