Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Terrance Waldman, 4, & Benjamin Waldman, 1, sons of Milton S. Waldman, assistant editor of the London Mercury, grandsons & heirs of the late copper tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim who perished on the Titanic; in a 14-story fall from a penthouse roof; in Manhattan. Mrs. Waldman (Barbara Hazel Guggenheim) held the younger son on her lap when a tussle caused the fall...
...James Joseph Tunney took a year lease on a house in smart Mayfair, London, which they hope to kindle into a literary salon with the aid of George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, et al. Meanwhile, it was reported that retired Fisticuffer Tunney had agreed to fight five British heavyweights in one evening-all, however, for the good of charity...
...designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this...
...Dutch East Indies to sell kerosene lamps and allied merchandise. In 1892 he was called to Batavia by the Royal Dutch oil interests. He is now Director-General of that gigantic enterprise. Robust, brown-eyed, white-haired, he spends most of his time in St. Helen's Court, London, centre of the financial district. The English have made him a baronet. His millions rank him with Rockefeller, Ford, the world's Croesi. He is superficially a brisk cosmopolite. But if his career has taken him further than the Amsterdam Sixes, he, too, has seen the windmills, the dikes...
Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery managed to secure Meindert Hobbema's The Hamlet in the Wood for $158,400, the highest price of the auction. Messrs. Colnaghi of London bought Rembrandt's Portrait of Burgomaster Six for $39,600, the world's record price for an etching. A total of 64 paintings and 10 Rembrandt etchings were sold. The sales realized $925,012. Of this sum $250,000 had changed hands in four minutes. Auctioner Muller could well afford to smile on the River Amstel. His firm had received the customary 10%, amounting in this case...