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...collections were perhaps the world's finest in private hands. Last time the two met, Mellon vowed, "I'll have you in with me yet." The addition of the Widener paintings and the fine Italian collection presented last summer by 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress (TIME, July 24) would make Washington's National Gallery one of the great galleries of the world...
Married. Helen Carroll, 23, beauteous radio songstress ("the Merry Macs"), and famed hot Guitarist Carl Kress, 32, operator of The Onyx, famed hot Manhattan night spot; in Manhattan...
...unobtrusive has Mr. Kress been in the assembling, lending and giving of his masterpieces that the announcement of the gift to Washington came as a popular surprise. Only persons long associated with him in this undertaking have been Stephen Pichetto, the Metropolitan's restorer and technical adviser of painting, Florence Art Dealer Count A. Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale...
...head of a huge clan, he often has his home overflowing with relatives, is called "Uncle Sam" by the kids. No tottering oldster, Uncle Sam Kress at 76 is an erect, handsomely preserved, almost white-headed figure who daily keeps himself in condition at his private gymnasium, credits his clear eye and physical fitness to lifelong moderate habits...
...When the Kress collection at last comes to its resting place, the National Gallery will be richer by works from the brushes of almost every important master in the Italian school: Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Filippo Lippi, Pietro di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini...