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...scholarship in music at Manhattan's Juilliard School. Later Stein wrote music and produced a few off-Broadway shows on shoestring budgets. To make money he sold librettos at the Metropolitan Opera House. After ballet performances he sometimes bought back programs from departing customers and resold them at later performances, netting a small but perhaps significant capital gain. When he finally decided that he was not destined to become a great violinist, he put his fiddle into a closet and permanently gave up playing...
Fortunately, Soutine was unable to lay his hands on the 100-odd landscapes acquired in 1923 by Philadelphia's Albert C. Barnes, some of which were later resold to other collectors and found their way into Manhattan galleries. The purchase set Soutine on the road to financial independence and made his work available for New York artists, turning Soutine, Willem-nilly, into a link in the chain of artistic development that runs from Van Gogh to De Kooning...
...commission recommended that the state hold most of the other six acres in reserve, perhaps as a site for a park or plaza. An acre or two would be sold to the Kennedy Library Corp. and resold to Harvard as a site for the proposed Institute of Politics, which will be connected with the library...
...toilet bowls moved onto patios and sprouted flowers; louvered windows, coach lamps and marble fireplaces became standard. An enterprising young real estate man bought up some houses, ripped the plaster down to the bare brick, added odds and ends picked up at demolition sites and secondhand stores and resold his properties at profits handsome enough to make him a millionaire...
...Utica, N.Y., 30 years ago, he enlisted in the army in 1957, won an award as the "outstanding soldier of the regiment." In 1958 he was shipped to Turkey and assigned to a U.S. communications center in Ankara. When he bought a tape recorder at the PX and resold it to a Turkish citizen, Baldwin broke Turkish law; when he sold a second tape recorder for a pal, the pal backed out of the deal, and Baldwin qualified for a court-martial for "larceny." At his army trial, he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment (later rescinded...