Word: connoisseurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Are Afraid." In the art of acquisition, Canadian-born Cummings has the connoisseur's touch. He likes to buy the works of recognized painters, unblinkingly paid $92,500 for Picasso's Woman with Flowers. Doing corporate deals, Cummings looks for moneymakers whose owners might like the strength and size of Consolidated. He closes deals rapidly, sometimes in just one day. "If they don't go quickly," he says, "they usually never go." He scrutinizes a prospect's book value, sales and earnings reports, also examines advertising budgets because "advertising is closely related to consumer demand...
...Guards for El Greco. Duncan Phillips was above all else the single-minded connoisseur. His goal: "To stand sponsor especially for the lonely artist in quest of beauty, independent of all cliques and movements." Art, he felt, was to be shared as he had experienced it best, in "an intimate, attractive atmosphere that we associate with a beautiful home." Grandson of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon and independently wealthy, Phillips, after Yale ('08), turned to art. One of his initial loves was Daumier. He bought the French caricaturist's Three Lawyers in 1919, the first of what became...
Died. Duncan Phillips, 79, art connoisseur and creator of Washington's magnificent Phillips Collection, through which he shared his treasures with the world; of heart disease; in Washington...
...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
...reckoning of the late Lucius Beebe, who finished this gossipy and amusing book shortly before he died in February at 63, Brady was a gross arriviste, strictly a spender without class. Himself a relentless connoisseur, a professional dandy, and perhaps the best known boulevardier of his time, Social Chronicler Beebe held that the true test of spenders of distinction was not necessarily how they rid themselves of substantial sums of money but rather how closely they subscribed to the dictum of the late Gene Fowler: "Money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains." As an example...