Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The picture first came to light in London 33 years ago. An Italian nobleman, the Marchese Guido Serra di Cassano, was decorating a town house by buying wholesale lots of pictures at a few pounds apiece. Browsing about one run-down little antique shop, he spied a medium-sized (29...
The marquis' $25 investment turned into one of the most profitable in the history of art. His Rembrandt brought $100,000 from a wealthy Glasgow merchant, whose widow later presented the painting to Britain's Fairbridge Society, which sends underprivileged children to its farms in Australia.
At Madison Square Garden last week, the ex-street fighter and the ex-stevedore, both now 24 and duly coached and polished in Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title...
The man who put the fizz back in is effervescent Eric Hooper, 60. Trained as a botanist, Hooper "wandered about for a time," met Department Store Magnate Frederick James Marquis, now Lord Woolton, and went to work for him without knowing what business Woolton was in. "When I showed up...
Breath-Taking. In Louisville, the Navy narrowly averted a bookkeeping crisis by enrolling as Bennett (NMI)* Stalard a youth whose real name is Hugh Alexander Morris Gene Saul Ralph Giles Gilbert Motoer Marquis Miles Marion Mayo John Charles James Gordon Bennett Adams Christopher Columbus Elijah Green Eversole Bradley Kincaid Robert...