Word: owner
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...largest ever paid for an American painting. But what would no doubt please Painter Samuel F.B. Morse more is the fact that his canvas Gallery of the Louvre has been plucked from dusty storage at Syracuse University, and will now be displayed with due fanfare by its new owner, Daniel J. Terra, 71, at his two-year-old Terra Museum of American Art in Evanston, Ill. The painting was meant to be a sort of early-American effort at cultural packaging: 38 of the world's greatest masterpieces all on one canvas. Depicted, in remarkable detail, are the works...
...white wine. John O'Toole, chairman of New York City's Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency, was bemused by the Senate action. Said he: "I get a dismal sense of déjà vu. Didn't this happen just a few years ago?" Harry Poulakakos, owner of Harry's at Hanover
...bleacher at the rear of the amphitheater, beyond the shade of the roof, a man with an unbuttoned, flowered shirt suns his ample midriff, his eyes serenely shut. He could be an orthodontist or a hardware-store owner, but he is probably the minister of a prosperous Protestant suburban church. Chautauqua was founded by Methodists as a boot camp for Sunday-school teachers, and even today an empty bottle of sarsaparilla (alcohol is not sold on the grounds) flung into the night is likely to bean an aestivating pastor. To one side of the amphitheater is the stately United Presbyterian...
...Owner Philip Lovell was a health columnist, an exponent of water cures, open-air sleeping and vegetarianism. Neutra, more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches...
Reggie Jackson, 36, California Angels outfielder, on his current boss, Gene Autry, and his former boss, Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner: "Autry's a superdad kind of guy. I was used to a guy who scolds you and sends you to bed without dinner...