Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jerk of the thumb, a murmur in any of half a dozen languages, which the auctioneer swiftly understood. Said the buyer for America's Gimbels department-store chain: "The early part of the collection of Farouk's father shows the care and feeling that marks the collector. But Farouk's contribution is just a mixed-up accumulation." Added a European dealer who used to sell to Farouk: "He was a very good customer. But he was a sucker. He often paid too much...
...exile, Playboy Farouk last week gave a royal brushoff to a bill collector who wanted to collect on a $5,000 underwear bill, and drove off to Monte Carlo in a station wagon with his latest collector's item, brunette Irma Capece Minutolo, aged...
...Corporation promptly appointed a retired Boston banker, Harold Murdock, director, making Pottinger his assistant. Murdock a book collector and fancier of fine printing, imported the world famous designer, Bruce Rogers, as printing adviser to the Press. Soon the Harvard University Press became equal to the old, Commercial University Press in fame for masterly editions. Pottinger worked closely with Rogers, and when outside duties slowly took Rogers more and more away from the Press, Pottinger did most of the designing. And it is generally conceded that under Pottinger's aegis the Press' reputation far from diminished...
...Knoedler's, a show called "A Collector's Taste" displayed 24 of the best paintings owned by Manhattan Industrialist Stephen Carlton Clark (Singer sewing machines), longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. Unlike many private collections, which tend to second-rate paintings by first-rate artists, the Clark show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing...
...collector: Clark bought it last month through a dealer from a collector in Munich...