Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Armand Hammer, perhaps the world's most flamboyant businessman even at the age of 77, didn't want it that way. He wasn't content with presenting "Juno", his recently purchased $3.25-million Rembrandt, without a touch of the swashbuckler...
...Hammer, active chairman of Occidental Petroleum, and his wife Francis, came to the Fogg yesterday with the painting, and the publicity and the needless security risks. And everybody had a very good time...
...Hammer made it clear at the outset that he was lending Harvard the painting for a three-month show beginning Thursday only because he wanted to please his "dear friend" Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg...
...Slive] was disappointed that the painting was at the Metropolitan Museum all those years--this is the only thing I could do for our friendship," Hammer explained about his decision to bring the painting to the Fogg immediately after he purchased...
...three-month presentation of Juno - the most expensive Rembrandt ever purchased -- isn't all that Harvard stands to gain out of Hammer's presence...