Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student, the other a bartender, who said they were "crazy" about art and wanted some masterpieces of their own. The damaged paintings: Renoir's Seated Nude, lent by the Chicago Art Institute and valued at $100,000, Picasso's Woman Ironing, lent by a Manhattan collector and valued at $100,000, Bonnard's Self-Portrait, from another Manhattan collector and valued at $25,000, and Gauguin's la Orana Maria, from the Metropolitan Museum. All four had been slashed, and two completely cut from their frames one to two inches from the edges. Shaken museum officials...
Baylor's A. Joseph ("Dr. A.") Armstrong, 79, who at seven used to scribble on his school slate "A. Joseph Armstrong, prof, of Greek," eventually became a professor of English and the world's No. 1 collector of Browning. In term, white-haired Dr. A. used to rise at dawn each day for a five-mile prebreakfast hike, taught with explosive severity ("Son, you sound like you have a mouthful of mush"), worked with such ferocity that he left the rest of the campus panting ("I hope to die on Saturday," he would say, "so there...
...followed Bert's advice. He opened an office in Washington, but when he got married he bought a house across the Potomac in Arlington County. He paid Virginia state income taxes, and, in fact, eventually became a good friend of the state tax collector. When one of his daughters grew up and began filing federal income tax returns, he helped her fill them out. But for 30 years, Chiropractor Meyers never paid a cent of federal income tax himself. Bert's misinformation had "cocooned" in his mind...
...them, Pinay's bonds got another guaranty: the government will buy them back any time at the price, in francs, at which they were purchased. The tax-wary French were also assured that they may hold the bonds anonymously, thus transfer them at death without the inheritance tax collector hearing...
Igor Kipnis '52 will be the "Guest Collector" over station WGBH tonight at 8 p.m. He will play recordings of Dino Lipatti, the late Roumanian pianist...