Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faith with Terror. Benedictine nuns specialize in making church ornaments, vestments and altar cloths. Geneviève's work was skillful, but it puzzled and confused the sisters by its harsh turbulence. One day an art collector named Dr. Paul Alexandre came upon some of Genevieèe's work at a church sale. Impressed, he began to buy it whenever he could; eventually, he slipped a book of Rembrandt sketches for her through the grill of the convent. Later, he sent her a printing press and etcher's tools...
...would have been a collector's item for anybody's album. But this time the Senator from New Hampshire had neglected to turn on his recorder...
...number of self-styled kings & queens (one of whom, Mexico's flame-haired Maria Antonieta Pons, was already pulling them into a midtown New York nightclub last week), Pérez Prado is its emperor. Discussing his creation, Pérez Prado explains: "I am a collector of cries and noises, elemental ones like seagulls on the shore, winds through the trees, men at work in a foundry. Mambo is a movement back to nature, by means of rhythms based on such cries and noises, and on simple joys...
Emanuel Celler, who has served Brooklyn in Congress for the past 14 terms, penned a letter to the New York Times, listing the perfect Congressman's qualities: "The friendliness of a child, the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the tirelessness of a bill collector, the patience of a sacrificing wife, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat, and the good humor of an idiot...
...Angeles collector had bought a signed and certified early De Chirico in Milan, and then asked the artist to authenticate it. Cried De Chirico: Fake! The collector promptly took his canvas, An Italian Square, to court...