Word: framer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case began last spring when a frail, 82-year-old lady named Eva Savage consigned a batch of 35 presumably undistinguished paintings to Christie's to be auctioned. Her husband, who died 15 years ago, had been a picture framer whose practice was to buy old frames which he would then regild and use. Often the pictures in the frames went with the deal. On one such occasion in 1933, Mrs. Savage recalls, her husband bought a wagonload of frames at an average price of 10 shillings each from a dealer in York, who for good measure happened...
Around the corner at 111 Mt. Auburn Street is Seymour Swetzoff, custom framer. He does excellent work; as far as I know, there is no one else in Cambridge who can lay gold leaf around the corner of a frame, giving the illusion that there is no joint. More than this, Mr. Swetzoff is a knowledgeable and friendly man with varied interests (yoga, old master drawings) and a sense of humor. He also puts on more-or-less regular exhibits in his gallery room. His present show is of Max Swartz, who does pop art pictures of the Beatles--need...
...Auburn Street is the Paul Schuster Gallery. Mr. Schuster is a tasteful and craftsmanly framer. He also maintains a stock of prints by Matisse, Zao Wou-ki, Roualt (wood engravings, around $30), and others. He is moving away from prints toward showing more contemporary paintings, his true love...
Leslie Caron, occasionally in lingerie, spends a weekend accidently locked up with a stolid picture framer in the last part, "Two Pigeons." The situation puts heavy stress on the imagination, but creates some decent comedy. By narrating their sides of the story alternately, the two prisoners expertly squeeze out all the possibilities their predicament suggests, short of the obvious...
...President Kennedy had to deal with a trade-bill crisis within his own Administration team. Before the Ways and Means hearings started, a skirmish broke out over who was going to get star billing as the lead-off Administration witness. Under Secretary of State George W. Ball, the principal framer of the bill, wanted to be the chief witness. But the Ways and Means Committee's Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, a staunch friend of the bill, wanted the Administration to lead off with Commerce Secretary Hodges. Mills's reasoning: the State Department is not popular in the House...