Word: collectors
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...Bowles, 68, has been a distinguished composer; in 1947 Musician Virgil Thomson called him "America's most original and skillful composer of chamber music." He has written music for the stage, particularly for the plays of his friend Tennessee Williams. He has also been a tireless collector of folklore and legends, especially from Morocco, where he has lived on and off since the early 1930s. There he and his wife, the late novelist Jane Bowles, presided over a lively colony of literary émigrés and pilgrims. Bowles translated Sartre and founded Antaeus, a superb quarterly; his publications...
...into a recession, a much noticed but little recorded sector of American business activity is thriving as never before. It is the underground economy, an illicit system of cash and barter in exchange for goods and services. Because it operates beyond the statistician's reach and the tax collector's grasp, no one knows its exact size and scope. But various learned economists, who find this fast-growing sector to be a fertile field for academic investigation, estimate that it runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year...
...necessarily plain in New Zealand's centeral Otago; the region may exist only in the wonderfully deranged mind of novel's narrator, herself a chimera of identities. She is, at various stages, Violet Pansy Proudlock, a ventriloquist: Mavis Barwell, widow of a French teacher turned debt collector; and Alice Thumb, a novelist...
...Mediterranean town of Collioure. Critics have always preferred Le Jeune Marin II for its flowing strokes and color. Perhaps that was because they saw little of Jeune Marin I; Matisse sold it to Gertrude Stein's brother Michael, who twelve years later sold it to a Norwegian collector. Recently Marin I surfaced at exhibitions in New York and Zurich, a prelude to auction last week at Christie's in London. There, in spirited bidding on the floor and by telephone, the oil was knocked down for $1,584,000, an auction record for 19th and 20th century paintings...
DIED. Lessing Rosenwald, 88, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and collector of rare books, prints and drawings which he donated to the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress; in Jenkintown, Pa. Son of Julius Rosenwald, mail-order pioneer who preceded him as Sears chairman, Rosenwald retired from Sears at 48 to devote himself to philanthropy, various political interests and his lifelong passion, collecting...