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...office which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor car, which was specially designed...
General Cigar Co. (Robert Burns, White Owl, William Penn, Laddies, Van Dyck) ?$3,366,136. Previous year, $2,562,812. Adolf Gobel, (sausages)?$408,465. Previous year...
...exhibition of eclectic painters, including Van Dyck, Ribera, Magnasco, and Caravaggio, has been arranged in gallery XVII on the second floor of the Museum. Of particular interest to students of Ingres is a late Venetian "Adoration of the "Magi", recently presented to the Museum by M. Durand-Ruel, which hung for many years in the studio of Ingres in Rome...
...Canadian ale, gnaws the householder's baked ham, belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term of one and one-half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature...
...their favorite ammunition, but when the last pint had crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked up vases, jars, bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor organ; twisted the pipes, knocked off stops, walked on the keys, stamped, scuffed, dug with heels...