Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special guard in red uniforms and 50 private detectives standing by every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Dynamic Miss Helen Clay Frick sent for the bomb squad from police headquarters and a special detail of a precinct captain, a sergeant, and twelve patrolmen. Only then were the doors opened and New York's bluest bloods admitted to a museum to which, in the will of its donor, "the entire public shall forever have access subject only to reasonable regulations...
Grandson of Distiller Abraham Overholt, Henry Clay Frick laid the foundation of his great fortune in Pittsburgh coke ovens. Shrewd little Andrew Carnegie bought an interest in Frick Coke Co., made Frick a Carnegie partner in 1889. The partners never liked each other. It was not until 1900 that they broke in what was to be one of the classic feuds of U. S. industry. When Partner Carnegie tried to force Partner Frick to sell out on his own terms, Partner Frick chased him down the office building corridor. Thereafter both men were more or less free to indulge their...
...make that house look like a miner's shack!" cried Henry Clay Frick who thereupon spent $5,000,000 on the house to which the public was admitted last week. Even strolling in Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade with timorous, kindly Mrs. Frick, Frick's mind was constantly working up ways of outshining Carnegie. Frick could not make after-dinner speeches, pat newsboys on the head, or write essays on the virtue of goodness, but he knew how to buy & sell and he had instinctive taste. He set out to form the greatest private art collection...
Henry Clay Frick died in 1919. His house was untouched until Mrs. Frick followed him in 1931. Since then their capable, ginger-haired daughter Helen has made the Frick art collection her career, almost her religion. With her own funds she assembled and housed a topnotch art library next door to her father's house (TIME, Jan. 21). As the most active member of the trustees of the $15,000,000 fund that was left to administer the collection, she has weeded out and improved her father's public legacy in the past four years until...
...Green comes to Camp on Soldiers Field with very small Ray of Sunshine, but the Hull game is right in the Crimson Handrahan. Harlow blocking and tackling will Lynch the Dartmouth hopes, Bott Coach Blaik will resort to strategy in Casey finds his Armour vulnerable. Kenny Frick the works? Sage thinks...