Word: collector
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...emergency source of power for his lights. Some of the harbor's available motorboats were rounded up and their generators wired together for current so that the yacht's power plant could be stilled. For the results of Burrows' efforts, and the story of a fabulous collector and his collection, see ART, The Golden Fleece...
Shadowy & Aloof. What catapulted Niarchos overnight into the front ranks of 20th century collectors was his purchase for more than $2,500,000 of 58 paintings and one Degas sculpture from the Edward G. Robinsons' collection last spring (the Knoedler show will include 40 of the Robinson paintings). But Niarchos did not attain his standing as a collector solely on the strength of the Hollywood actor's selections. He made his first modest purchase when he picked up Winslow Homer's A Voice from the Cliffs (which now hangs in his Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir...
...planet, a chemical retort or a dialectical retort to Communist propaganda, every Jesuit everywhere owes his unswerving obedience to his tactful, affable and unassuming Superior General. Belgian-born Jesuit Janssens wryly credits his painstaking, lifelong concern for accuracy to the fact that his father was a tax collector. A precocious youngster, young Janssens was first in his class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took his first vows two years later in 1909. He took...
Born. To Billy Pearson, 37, pint-sized jockey, TV quiz wizard (The $64,000 Question), passionate art collector, and Queta Pearson, 38: a daughter, their first child; in San Diego. Name: Maria Christina. Weight...
Base Clef. In Manhattan, Thomas Patrick Murphy, 47, booked on charges of burglary and possessing burglary tools (5,000 hotel and auto keys, auto-license-plate stamping tools), explained about the keys: "It's my hobby. I'm a key collector...