Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small village. The family-every member of which is unforgettably portrayed in the most natural style imaginable-is Brahman. The father is a priest, a decent, impractical man, "bursting with ideas for plays" and poems" that he never publishes, making what money he can as a rent collector. The mother is a sensible, hard-working homemaker, warmhearted but hard pressed to make ends meet. It is difficult enough to keep the children, a schoolboy named Apu and a teen-age girl named Durga, properly fed and clothed. As for the old aunt, as far as the mother is concerned...
After Cellini's death the bust apparently lost its identity; since 1791 it has been owned by an English noble family that could not prove its authenticity when forced by circumstances to sell it to a U.S. collector. Heil's conclusion: "It is completely in the personal style of Cellini, and so unique in craftsmanship that nobody but Cellini could have done...
...most flamboyant art collector in South America is a bouncing, bantam Brazilian with the resounding name of Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello. What "Chato" collects goes on display in a public museum in Sao Paulo (pop. 3,300,000), and in just eleven years he has made it the hemisphere's finest outside the U.S. Chato pays for much of the art himself, and gets the rest by a grandiose form of flattery. As publisher of 32 newspapers and five magazines, and as owner of 24 radio and three TV stations, he can elaborately praise any rich...
Died. Breckinridge Long, 77, Missouri-born lawyer, horse breeder, bon vivant, art collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel...
Michael C. D. Macdonald '60 and Michel J. Strauss '59, are organizing the showing, which is tentatively entitled "The Scholar as Collector." Numerous items have already been pledged for exhibit, including works of Picasso, Klee, Roualt, and Durer...