Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wyman Carroll, animal collector and lecturer, will narrate his latest film, "Collecting Animals Around the World," at Phillips Brooks House tonight...
...surrounding the sale of the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson art collection for $3,250,000 (TIME, March 4), was finally cleared up. Not very silent on a peak in St. Moritz, Greek Shipping Tycoon Stavros Spyros Niarchos let it be known last week that he is the collector for whom Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. bought 58 paintings and a bronze from Movie Tough Guy Robinson...
With this purchase Niarchos, one of the richest men in the world, is well on his way toward becoming one of the world's great collectors. (His prize painting is El Greco's Pietà, for which he paid $400,000.) With town houses in Paris and Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always...
...Oakland surgeon's son, Six began inauspiciously by quitting high school, thereafter became a merchant seaman, bill collector, turned to flying at 21 after Lindbergh's transatlantic flight had fired his imagination. Six started a flying school that failed, spent a year as a part-time copilot for China National Aviation, ended up a delivery hand for the San Francisco Chronicle. Soon tiring of that, Six began selling Beechcrafts on the Pacific Coast, set himself up as an aviation consultant...
...collection was the personal triumph as well as the joy of Actor Robinson, who as a boy had been an ardent collector of cigar bands, had moved on to oils 25 years ago (after Little Caesar), when his Hollywood salary jumped from $1,000 to $7,000 a week. Among his prize canvases were Corot's L'ltalienne, Ceézanne's The Black Clock, and masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and almost every other major French painter of the past half-century. When the collection became notable, Robinson opened his Hollywood home...