Word: hammerman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold for $10,640, an increase of 230% in four years. A Toulouse-Lautrec print, La Grande Loge, garnered the highest price yet paid for a modern print: $15,400, more than double its 1959 value. Sotheby's was jammed for the sale, and their suave hammerman, Peter Wilson, who knows everybody in the London art world by sight, said, "I'd never seen half the people before...
...improved schools in Negro neighborhoods. A biracial committee quietly formed in Cleveland has won a six-month moratorium on demonstrations for that city's new school superintendent, to give him "time to implement his program." In Los Angeles, an energetic new urban-affairs director named Sam Hammerman has brought about a close understanding between civil rights groups and the school board...