Word: harbison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who interviewed the owners and patrons of Manhattan's top auction houses, shares Demarest's taste for fine art. "Chinese lacquer chests interest me, and so do impressionist paintings. I wouldn't mind getting a Renoir for Christmas. It can be a very small...
...tension of an operatic first night with the ambience of a celebrity party. A top auctioneer has the talents of a croupier, a fight promoter and a matinee idol. As SPB President John Marion, who has wielded the gavel for 18 years, said to TIME'S Georgia Harbison: "A good auctioneer is very much like a good lecturer. Everyone should understand what's going on and be sitting forward in his seat." He added: "Sometimes the atmosphere in the salesroom is absolutely crackling. The eyes of the whole world are on you at an impressionist sale. As much...
...date guidebook to shifts in manners since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, which has just been revised by former White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige. To prepare the cover story, Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison interviewed Baldrige and found her "warm, graceful and witty, with manners so good you don't notice them." The cover assignment, however, made Harbison so acutely aware of social minutiae that she was "shocked to find my teenage daughter didn't seem to know the difference between...
...Maumelle, Ark.; Shenandoah, Ga.; Park Forest South, Ill.; St. Charles, Md.; Cedar-Riverside and Jonathan, Minn.; Gananda and Riverton, N.Y.; Soul City, N.C.; Newfields, Ohio; Harbison, S.C.; Flower Mound and The Woodlands, Texas...
...nine-year evolution of the buildings, from preconception to opening, has been documented by TIME Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison. Her account...