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Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...
When the khedive of Egypt in 1875 put his Suez Canal shares on the market, Britain needed $19 million to outbid other countries. Lionel de Rothschild, sucking on a grape, casually agreed to get the money for his friend Dizzy (Disraeli)-at only 3% interest. The Rothschilds helped to bankroll the empire-building exploits of Cecil Rhodes, and took home a large bundle of stock in the De Beers diamond and gold trust...
...since 1955 have alternated between fairly warm and fairly chilly. Khrushchev not only swallowed Tito's determination to maintain his status as a Communist "independent," but in a four-day session at the island retreat of Brioni patiently listened to his host's advice on how to outbid the Chinese in the struggle for the leadership of the Red world...
...inherited the house of Wildenstein from his father Nathan in 1934, carried on the family tradition of spot cash for multimillion-dollar collections, blue-chip customers (from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to Stavros Niarchos) and controversy (he caused a national uproar in 1960 after he outbid the Louvre for a De La Tour, then exported it to the Met, making himself a profit of at least $500,000); of a heart attack; in Paris...
...Cleveland Browns' great Jimmy Brown. He was the first Negro ever to win the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in the U.S. President Kennedy personally congratulated him ("Imagine," said Ernie, "a President wanting to shake hands with me!"), and pro teams battled bitterly to outbid each other for his services. The Cleveland Browns won, and Davis signed a threeyear, $80,000 contract. "I love to play football," said Ernie, happily. "And I can't think of anything better than getting paid...