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...After telling a Texas audience that the major leagues "must be extended from coast to coast, from north to south." Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick heard that San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher was in New York telling the Giants' and the Dodgers' presidents how nice it would be to have the Giants in San Francisco when the Dodgers move to Los Angeles. Frick hastily sent a telegram to the Dodgers' Walter O'Malley saying that all talk of transfers "is harmful to baseball." So O'Malley went back to chattering about building...
...since the 'Poon is more serious than the Council and would not try to make a joke out of this thing. However, the entire Lampoon membership has been detailed to guard duty on the Ibis, and they just won't come out and play." The CRIMSON is asking Commissioner Frick to put the Lampoon into a Class D League...
Underneath the robe was the original paint, heavily damaged, but identified by Richardson as "characteristic Van Eyck color-a clear, deep crimson." As to the value of Detroit's find, one of 30-odd Van Eycks in existence, Richardson pointed out that Manhattan's Frick Collection paid a reported $750,000 for a Virgin and Child by Van Eyck and his follower, Petrus Christus. Already one dealer has offered Detroit $400,000 for its St. Jerome. But Director Richardson had a firm answer: the painting is not for sale...
...wage theories of big-league baseball players have always been as uncomplicated as the appetite of Oliver Twist. What they want is more. What they will get, announced Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick last week, is exactly that. For the privilege of broadcasting the next five years All-Star and World Series games on radio and television, NBC has promised to pay a whopping $16,250,000. And, since 60% of the profits is already earmarked for the nine-year-old Annuity and Insurance Plan, retirement benefits for retired baseballers may soon jump to $300, perhaps as high...
...five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced on the Dreyfus bronzes, had them expertly catalogued in three massive volumes. As Duveen had anticipated, the impressive volumes...