Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...redhead; I'm liable to do anything," affably croaked Manhattan's No. 1 collector of French art, leather-faced ex-Utilities Tycoon Chester Dale. What Collector Dale was liable to do was a question that worried many a U.S. museum. From 1926 (when his wife switched his ruling passion from fire engines to art) to 1936 Collector Dale bought French paintings as shrewdly as he formerly consolidated power companies. His collection, now valued at $6,000,000 to $15,000,000, outgrew three Manhattan apartments, now fills five floors of a museumlike private mansion on East 79th Street...
Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...woman reported to the police that she was offered a pony coat for ?16 (half the store price) by a woman black-market agent who had about 20 fur coats in the back of her limousine. Other gangs thrived on door-to-door selling in apartment buildings. A laundry collector had a lively sideline in silk stockings...
Died. James J. Hoey, 63, Collector of Internal Revenue for the U.S.'s smallest collection area, richest revenue producer; in Baltimore. His area, the 2nd New York District-23rd Street to the Battery in Manhattan, will turn over at least $650,000,000 in taxes this year...
...newly opened graves, nobody gave him commissions. So Painter Albright painted himself. One of his self-portraits, an imaginative picture of a dour, wrinkled man sitting by a table with a still-life arrangement on it, was bought by Chicago's Adman Earle Ludgin, most enthusiastic individual Albright collector...