Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further free expression, our Promotion Department mailed out a supply of brand-new posters to members of advertising agencies, together with an invitation to let themselves go. Exactly 581 posters bearing inscriptions were returned to us, and duly examined by expert judges. Winning exhibits are now on display in New York's Grand Central Station. Naturally, many have an advertising slant: "The White Knight cheats at polo," "Pall Mall can't spall," "Avis is Hertz's Newsweek" "Xerox never comes up with anything original," and "I dreamed I could wear a Maidenform bra-Twiggy."." There is also...
...expert on reapportionment points out, "the suburbanite fled the city and now resents being called upon to solve its problems. For the most part, he adopts a 'them' v. 'us' attitude." Despite this detachment, reapportioned legislatures have shown a greater awareness of urban problems than any of their predecessors. Says Herbert Wiltsee, director of the Southern Office of the Council of State Governments: "The 1967 legislative sessions have been giving almost unprecedented consideration to such matters as air and water pollution and consumer protection-subjects of special concern to city dwellers and suburbanites...
...guessed early that Jackie was pregnant with John Jr., was the first to pry confirmation from John Kennedy. She broke the story on President Johnson's rejection of the Peter Hurd portrait. Far from content with pool coverage, the Chicago Daily News's Colleen Dishon had an expert counterfeit an invitation to get her own reporter into the Jay Rockefeller-Sharon Percy wedding...
...room mansion of Texas Oil Millionaire Algur Hurtle Meadows, elegantly framed paintings by nearly every leading painter of Paris. You name them, Meadows had them-Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Derain, Modigliani, Bonnard, Degas, and on and on. For insurance purposes, they had been appraised by New York Art Expert Carroll Hogan at $1,362,750. On the market, works by such artists might fetch $3,000,000. But, confided Oilman Meadows to his admiring guests, they had cost him "closer to $400,000 than a million," and maybe as little...
Room for Experience. Meadows' problems with art experts may not be ended. In 1962, he offered Southern Methodist University a new museum, to be stocked with his collection of Spanish old masters, and endowed it with $1,000,000. But art scholars are now taking a closer look at Meadows' Spanish collection mostly bought from one Madrid art dealer and valued at $3,000,000. Already one expert has flatly declared the El Greco Annunciation a fake, and others are being questioned...