Word: collectors
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...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's by President Eisenhower in 1956, and while still a diplomat, he purchased the ailing New York Herald Tribune, which he was unable to save, though it was his most treasured business project. An avid sportsman, Thoroughbred horse breeder and art collector, Whitney was an active philanthropist who gave away about $1 million a year. A man who savored the amenities and comforts his achievements easily afforded him, he never flaunted his wealth ($200 million at his death). Demanding in 1946 that his name be stricken from the Social Register, he said...
DIED. Louis Marx Sr., 85, manufacturer and philanthropist; in White Plains, N.Y. The Henry Ford of toymaking, he relied on mass production, underpricing, and a shrewd adapter's eye. Among his discoveries was a Filipino folk toy that in 1928 became the yoyo. A collector of famous friends, notably President Dwight Eisenhower, he aided poor children with 1 million gift toys a year...
Meanwhile, Arthur M. Sackler, the medical researcher and art collector who reportedly pledged $7.9 million toward the aborted extension, refused to say yesterday whether he plans to withdraw his gift, calling the question "an internal [Harvard] matter...
...still have them. They don't take up much room, and they're a little page in aviation history." Now, to a layman, 117 bags might seem enough. But Sweeting confides that he has just struck a deal to procure 300 more bags from a private collector in California...
...course, the new wing contains a great deal more than Asmat art, or even New Guinea art in general. Nelson Rockefeller was a voracious collector of primitive art as such, and almost everything he owned-the 3,500 or so objects that were the nucleus of his Museum of Primitive Art, along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number...