Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
...George Romney, the 18th Century English cabinet-maker's son who achieved the niceties of Cavendish Square and rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac Motor Co. and next-to-youngest of the six Fisher Brothers who rose from their father's Ohio blacksmithy to dominance in General Motors Corp...
...Fisher had bought a painting, with extraordinary results. It was a portrait of the Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, supposedly executed by George Romney in 1782 when the chaste, ringleted subject was only 17. Brother Lawrence paid the Howard Young Galleries of Manhattan about $200,000 for the canvas...
Galleryman Young quickly concluded that he, and through him Mr. Fisher, had been duped. Galleryman Young went to Detroit and gave Mr. Fisher back his money. But despite this material satisfaction, the world of Art remained troublous for Mr. Fisher. What about the rest of the score of paintings which he had employed Galleryman Young to buy for him? How could one ever be sure of the genuine? Even expert Sir Joseph Duveen, in a similar case, had proved nothing (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Row upon row of glistening Cadillacs, or Mr. Fisher's new and magnificent Fokker...
Over the telephone, Mr. Fisher related his tribulations: "I am [collecting] and I'm blamed if I know why people should get so excited about it. . . . Ever since . . . that story about the phoney Romney - if it is phoney - I have had to have 15 or 20 guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...