Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she was only five years old, the collector's passion seized Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Princess of Teck. She began hoarding Christmas cards, and throughout a long and energetic life as Britain's Queen Mary, she kept collecting. Before her death last year at the age of 85, she had assembled one of the most splendiferous royal collections of objets d'art in history...
Royal Gifts. The show was, as the London Times noted, "almost as much the portrait of a great collector as [of a great] collection." Queen Mary's personality and taste were evident throughout the exhibition, from the lacy finery she wore on festive occasions (exhibited on dressmaker's dummies at the entrance) to the staggering array of bibelots that had caught the royal eye. There were finely fashioned items of Chinese jade, Chelsea porcelain, Battersea enamel, Neapolitan piqué (tortoise shell or ivory inlaid with gold or silver), case after case of tiny, exquisite baubles, splendid examples...
...Meta-Mold Aluminum Co. of Cedarburg, Wis. is a corporation with an artistic soul. Its board chairman, Otto Spaeth, 57, is not only a shrewd and successful businessman but also a noted art patron and collector. In 1952, when Meta-Mold decided to build a new administration building, Sculptor Alexander Calder was called in to help design the lobby for a mobile that Calder named the "Otto-mobile" after Board Chairman Spaeth. Last summer Meta-Mold tried another experiment. It put on a show called "Art for Everyone-a purchase exhibition," in which 50 rented paintings and sculptures were offered...
...printed page, Erich Maria Remarque is a connoisseur of the good things in life-art, music, brandy. In his books, he is a collector of the evil things of his time-war, homelessness. futility. But his taste as a collector is rarely original, and perhaps too sentimental. When he was 18, he marched off to war with the Kaiser's armies; the result (not published until 1929) was All Quiet on the Western Front, still the best item in his collection. More recent history has given Remarque the plots for mediocre stories on a Nazi concentration camp (Spark...
...three other expensive cars. In the state capital at Tallahassee, the reporters dug into records, found that "food," supposedly for a group of laborers, whose salaries totaled $44,000 a year, cost $42,000. Among the items: $1.77-a-lb. steak, squab and imported hams. The highest-paid toll collector, the News reported, was an ex-convict. Several full-time highway employees listed as "painters" actually held full-time jobs elsewhere...