Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today at 58, he is still knife-witted, but illness and study have stooped his shoulders, given him the gentle manner of Mr. Chips. Off the job, his chief interest is the ballet. In 1925 he married a Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. An art collector, a member of the potent Bloomsbury group, he is one of Britain's top-ranking intellectuals and business pundits (as chairman of a life insurance company, National Mutual). But to the Government he remained an outsider, like Churchill, until the failures of World War II forced Tories and Labor alike to adopt (in part...
Among the entrants are two winners of the Wellesley race, Schmidt and Paul Carp '42, a collector of genteel old cars, Chapin Wallour '42, and Ted Frasier '42, who rode a high-wheeler in the fall race. Other competitors will be William Schall '42, Arthur Besse '42, John Liebler '42, and the pre-race favorite, six-foot two-inch Clay Orvis '42. Some of the men will bring back Radcliffe dates to the Dunster House Costume Party on tandems later in the evening...
...more publicity Reeves Lewenthal wrote, the more he was convinced that what the art world needed was not publicity but modern business distribution. "The gallery system," he argued, "is doomed. The rich collector class is dying out. There is no use in the galleries just sitting around complaining and waiting for the few old collectors who are left to come in and buy an occasional picture. American art ought to be handled like any other American business...
...porch. At the other side lies the grave of a poodle. Two other Glasgow dogs are buried in the Richmond pet cemetery under marble stones. Novelist Glasgow likes dogs so much that she has a collection of some 75 porcelain and pottery dogs. James Branch Cabell also keeps a collector's zoo-lions, cows, horses, elephants, rhinoceroses in glass, bronze, amber, porcelain and terra cotta. One day Cabell admired one of Miss Glasgow's porcelain dogs so much that she gave it to him. Delighted, Author Cabell did not dare to put it down for fear that Miss...
Renoir did not have to wait for posthumous fame. In his own lifetime, collectors bought his pictures hungrily at prices that ranged up to $18,102. Today, of the 4,000-odd paintings he turned out, more than half are owned in the U. S. One U. S. collector, terrible-tempered Dr. Alfred ("Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa., amassed the largest Renoir collection in the world...