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...safety pins, collar buttons, unset stones, Japanese netsukes, miniature bibles, bathtub faucets, tin soldiers, perfume bottles, ball bearings, for his celebrated collection of objects ''no larger than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait in oils of Hans Holbein the Younger, was last valued at $100,000 and is held for much more than that...
Into Chicago this week rolled 15,000 professional buyers of merchandise who swarmed to the Merchandise Mart ("world's biggest building"). There they were welcomed by some 550 manufacturing-tenants who now occupy nearly half of the Mart's 3,100,000 square feet of floor space. Trim co-eds from the University of Chicago and Northwestern guided them from elevators to exhibits. For beer, buyers visited The Kooler, a refreshment room designed to resemble a jail. They looked at 6,000 lines of merchandise, from collar buttons to calculating machines. Special attraction was the Hall of Science...
Germ of the Merchandise Mart idea originated some 30 years ago when Marshall Field's was young and Marshall Field was running it. In 1929, Chairman James Simpson found that Marshall Field & Co.'s wholesale department needed new quarters. He decided to put up a building which would house not only Marshall Field but many another manufacturer and wholesaler, would be another State Street in its concentration of buyers & sellers. Getting from the Chicago & North Western Ry. a tract of land along the Chicago River, he built the Merchandise Mart. It is two blocks long and a block...
...Here was a slender, sinuous Carmen who looked like a gypsy. Here was one who took the prize for vulgarity, elbowing guards in the stomach, whistling hoydenishly, spitting out fruit skins, wriggling her hips. Most effective scene was when she read death in the cards, gave the toujours la mart all its tragic implications. Most debatable costume was a slinky black velvet affair with a top like a bullfighter's jacket. This she chose for the final act as a symbol of her submission to Escamillo, the toreador...
...scenes so nearly resemble the ancient slave mart as the annual winter meetings of the American and National baseball leagues. For three days owners and managers haggle, trade and sell players, vociferously deny the deals to newshawks, and then disperse, hopeful that their club will finish...