Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were trading heirlooms for food, and antique treasures drained out of Germany. Last year, for the first time since the war, the flow was reversed as Germans bought back many of the things they had lost and more besides...
...prosperous French businessman, Bouché was born 54 years ago in Prague, traveled much in youth, early demonstrated a flair for art, and made his first big money with fashion drawings for the Paris Vogue. Now settled in Manhattan, he spends a third of each year in Europe, charges $3,000 to $8,000 a portrait. He once dabbled in abstract expressionism, now pooh-poohs it: "I consider myself the avant garde, because nobody sings the song of the upper level of society today. Nobody speaks of the exceptional human being...
...German collectors: "The way the market stands today, there is simply not enough stuff available, so anything goes. Career girls and young couples invariably start with a 'genuine' baroque angel cum gilded wings. A stabilized bank account calls for a Biedermeier dining-room set. The first sign of real affluence is a Gothic Madonna-polychrome for beginners, and Riemenschneider brown for the sophisticated. Real collecting comes later...
...Summer Place (Warner), based on the 1958 bestseller by Sloan Wilson, tells a story about two families who spend a summer together on an island off the coast of Maine. The first family is Back Bay Boston, gone to shirtsleeves; the second family is Upstate New York, rolling in revenue. The second family pays room and board to the first family, which is too poor to refuse the money but too proud to enjoy taking...
...their teens, wreck a sailboat and spend the night on a deserted beach. When Husband No. 1 (Arthur Kennedy) and Wife No. 2 (Constance Ford) wake up to what has been going on, they sue for divorces, demand custody of the children, pack them off to school by the first train. The adulterers get married and live happily ever after in a house that Frank Lloyd Wright built...