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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Baron James Ensor, 89, Belgium's major modern artist, noted for his masked, fantastic figures; in Ostend, Belgium. Pre-Surrealist Ensor, little known and seldom shown in the U.S., was, like fellow pioneers Gauguin and Van Gogh, among the first to go beyond impressionist painting...
With such genteel stiff-arming of the buyer, white-haired Hiram Parke, 76, who looks more like a bank president than an auctioneer, has pleased most of the sellers who have come to him.* In eleven years he has built Parke-Bernet (rhymes with "in debt") into the largest U.S. auction house, lured buyers from as far away as Europe and South America, and sold more than $50 million worth of paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, etc. At commissions ranging from 10% (plus expenses) up to 20%, he has always shown a tidy profit (last year's take: about...
...popularly supposed to be the chief occupational diseases of U.S. business executives. Last week, at a meeting of Chicago's Industrial Relations Association, Dr. David Slight, Illinois state psychiatrist and onetime University of Chicago professor, told why. A generation or two ago, said he, the successful executive, like as not, was a roaring, highhanded type who grabbed what he wanted and didn't worry about shoving other people around in the process. But the 1949 executive, said Dr. Slight, feels bound by the new labor-management gospel to watch his step...
With its low-slung, "step-down" car, Hudson Motor Car Co. had been competing with Buick, Oldsmobile and De Soto. This week, Hudson unveiled a smaller, cheaper car to compete with Pontiac and Dodge. The new Pacemaker looks like current Hudsons, but has a shorter wheelbase (119 in. v. the Super-Six's 124), a shorter hood, smaller engine (112 h.p., six-cylinder), and a lower ($240 to $265) price. It ranges from $1,675 f.o.b. Detroit for the three-passenger coupé to $1,795 for the four-door sedan...
...Easter time in 1884, the Czarina received what at first glance looked like an ordinary hen's egg, but the shell beneath its white enamel was of gold. Inside it was a golden yolk, and inside that a golden chick. In the chick's stomach was a model of the imperial crown, and inside the crown was a tiny ruby egg. It went over big. "Next Easter," the Czar informed Fabergé, "we'll be wanting another surprise...