Word: florsheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of New Orleans-bred Lillian Florsheim, ex-wife of the late Shoe Manufacturer Irving Florsheim, art appreciation has led herto both collecting and creating art herself. Her constructions are composed in the constructivist vernacular that she favors in her collection, which is rich in Vasarely, Albers, Calder and Gabo. For the past two years, she has held shows at Chicago's Main Street Galleries, has sold work to Collectors Mayer, Bergman and Connecticut's Joseph Hirshhorn...
Died. Leonard Florsheim, 84, Chicago transportation tycoon, one of the founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and a scion of the Florsheim shoe family who, with his friend John Hertz, founded the Yellow Cab Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. (the hub of the Chicago Transit Authority's bus routes) and the Omnibus Corp., later to become the Hertz Corp.; after a long illness; in Chicago...
Articulating admirably, Marlon Brando, 38, let a Tokyo reporter for Variety in on the difficulties of marketing a Great Actor. "An actor is a product like Florsheim shoes or Ford cars," said Brando. "He's a useful product that is resold many times for social purposes; and he's exploited the way any other piece of merchandise is." All terribly crass, but something else bugged Brando even more: "As soon as you become an actor, people start asking you questions about politics, astrology, archaeology and birth control. And what's even funnier, you start giving opinions...