Word: dor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Terry's argument is with famed Artist Gustave Dor...
...Dor...
What the show did prove was that a cartoonist's best strips are apt to look much like his worst. Not one panel had the uniqueness that marks a "great" illustrator-a George Cruikshank or Gustave Doré. But in their own ways a handful of the strippers were mighty good...
Hughes's first step was to put a ban on hirings & firings for 60 days. That meant that Doré Schary, RKO's crack production chief, who had not met Hughes until last week, would remain in charge, at least for the present...
...when a man named John M. Holzworth, identified in Who's Who as a lawyer and big-game hunter, offered $12,500 for the lot. The auctioneer promptly canceled all previous bids in favor of Holzworth's and shut up shop. But next day Gustave Doré's paintings were still gathering grime in the warehouse. As a final twist, which Balzac might have appreciated, Collector Holzworth was arrested, charged with passing phony checks...