Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guess there's a little bit of the souvenir collector in even the most professional newsman...
...Next in order of popularity: Matisse, Gauguin, Bonnard, Goya, Toulouse-Lautrec.) "I am surprised," he said. "They know a lot about painting, just as much as the Germans, if not more." The prints and etchings range from 300 ($6) to 5,000 francs ($100), and the average G.I. collector spends...
...bandits counted out $120,000 from their loot. Solemnly the tax collector gave them in return the official $4 tax stamps. Then the bandits made off for the hills. Tso Tsen-hwa and his fellow passengers climbed back into the bus, continued on their...
...Manhattan Lawyer Alfred H. Holbrook seemed an incurable collector of paintings. He was, he says, "like a toper who took one swig at the fount of art appreciation and went on a 40-year binge." Between sprees, Collector Holbrook wanted to find out why the habit had such a hold on him. This year he enrolled as an art student at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his classmates were 61 coeds. Last week he still had no logical explanation of his craving for art. But grateful Student Holbrook had presented his entire $175,000 collection, acquired over four...
...Collector Holbrook took a good, long look at the show and was seized with a new urge which promised to be even less curable than his old habit of collecting: he sat down and dashed off a painting...