Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-five years ago the name would have stumped even the experts. But last week it was on many lips. In its first purchase for two years, Manhattan's conservative Frick collection had just bought La Tour's Education of the Virgin-the fourth U.S.-owned La Tour...
...tightly knit U.S. baseball empire, such squawks and promotions by the Pacific powers are old stuff. Yet last week, to the amazement of many, the lords & masters made a pacifying pilgrimage. Commissioner Albert ("Happy") Chandler himself led the westward junket; he was accompanied by Presidents Will Harridge and Ford Frick of the American and National Leagues. At Los Angeles the battle was joined. Loudly led by dapper President Clarence ("Pants...
After five days of debating the issue of reason v. authority, National League President Ford Frick ruled that Beans had made a mistake and declared the game...
...hushed splendor of a Manhattan museum (the Frick) that was once a coal baron's Fifth Avenue palace, some of the most serious U.S. poets and critics gathered. They had come to hear, and honor, the acknowledged first poet of their day. T. S. Eliot, making one of his rare U.S. appearances, delivered a new lecture on his old enemy, John Milton...
Harry M. Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, Pittsburgh, a U. S. Steel subsidiary, denied that he had talked with Lewis. There had been reports that he had conferred with the miners' chief on a possible separate settlement for coal mines owned by the steel companies...