Word: dealer
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...chain of ownership has also been the subject of considerable dispute. Some specialists trace it directly back to the painter's sister-in-law. Tasset and others claim the first owner was the art dealer Amedee Schuffenecker. That would raise serious questions: Schuffenecker was notorious for selling fake paintings, and his brother Claude-Emile, a friend of both Van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's, was a skillful copyist of their works. Thus many doubters believe Jardin a Auvers was actually painted by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (1851-1934). If so, its celebrity is a vindication of sorts for a painter...
...used-car dealer from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Thompson earned his way through Memphis State and Vanderbilt Law School selling shoes door to door and working in a bicycle factory. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Tennessee when Baker recruited him for the Watergate Committee...
Even with his leather jacket, wraparound shades and permanent slouch, Matt can't quite pull off the menacing air people attach to drug dealers. Maybe it's the fact that he operates under the stately trees of Chicago's wealthy North Shore, or that he is only 17 and wears braces. He parks his late-model Lincoln in the student lot and saunters through the after-school crowd loitering on "Smokers' Corner," a short block from New Trier Township High School. Matt talks the language of business, not crime. "The way to make a large sum of money is with...
...speaking with a book dealer in Grenada, Spain, the library officials discovered that he had in his possession one of the rare books that had been stolen from Harvard...
Mederos stepped in and traced the book from the book dealer in Spain to and antiques dealer. The antiques dealer said he bought the book from a Cambridge resident, Mederos says...