Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaudiest of all the murders was that of Albert Testa, a midget-model (4 ft. 6 in.) burglar, counterfeiter and gambler, who was shot twice and dumped into a West Side alley. Testa was a friend of the late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears...
...than 100 years in the collection of a Major Warde-Aldam, went for $509,600. This year a new record for Goya was set with the sale of his hapless Duke of Wellington, which thereupon went to London's National Gallery and was almost immediately stolen. The Montreal collector, L. V. Randall, sold his master drawings for $186,400. Among them was a saint by Hugo van der Goes that brought an astonishing $84,000, making it the most expensive drawing of all time. Last year Sotheby's sales spiraled to a dizzy $28,834,100 (as compared...
...sick comedy that merely manages to be unwell. A bizarre trio of crooks consisting of a satanic professor with one lung (Donald Harron), a roly-poly jester (Stubby Kaye), and a bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) who looks nude in clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered room in kerosene, but Opal is not obliterated, or even...
...addition to constant car research, von Bekesy is an avid antique collector, and is a familiar prowling figure in Cambridge and New England antique shops. He exhibits pieces of early art in his laboratory "to relieve the stark gleam of instruments that bristle with knobs and dials," according to Stevens...
Silver & Snuff. Montclair got its museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...