Word: pre-columbian
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...corporation, esthetic Nathan Cummings is happiest "doing a deal." At the moment, the 69-year-old chairman of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. ought to be exuberant. His art collection, mostly impressionist and postimpressionist, embraces "100 very, very good paintings and 500 fun ones," and his display of pre-Columbian artifacts at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's finest. Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated...
...Chile, Castro-Cid's art has thrived on unpredictable influences. While he lived in tropical Central America he painted in hot Fauve colors: "Nature made me get out of myself," he says, "it opened my pores." In Mexico City, he wandered into the anthropological museum. "Suddenly I had pre-Columbian memories that, of course, were impossible for me to have." A series of Fauve paintings of Quetzalcoatl, the brightly plumed serpent god, was the result...
Business Quadrupled. After a two-year stint with the Army in Panama ("I spent most of my free time digging up pre-Columbian art objects"), Peter arrived back in New York and started searching for a gold-plated piano stool, just as his father had 32 years before. Duchin and his twelve-piece band were soon booked for $3,000 a week in the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Almost immediately, the nightclub's business quadrupled. Peter stayed on for three years, and the Maisonette was the only cheek-to-cheek dance spot in New York, besides...
...Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
...Weisman began collecting back in 1944 when, working with American Indians, he acquired herbs, roots and amulets that were used to cure diseases. While traveling in Mexico, he noticed that many pre-Columbian figurines had physical defects, concluded that they were meant to tell a story, possibly a medical story...