Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANNA E. RICHARDSON Indianapolis...
...Forces in 1942 (air combat intelligence), was discharged a lieutenant colonel in 1946. Thrusting once again into home-town politics, he was elected his party's city chairman, built his success by staying mostly in the background and pushing attractive candidates, e.g., Philadelphia Mayors Joe Clark (1951) and Richardson Dilworth (1955). In 1954 he helped persuade an unknown but respected chicken farmer named George Leader to run for governor. Leader won, appointed Finnegan Secretary of the Commonwealth...
Married. Francis X. (for,Xavier) Bushman, 73, great lover of silent films (Ben Hur, Graustark), who made' $6,000,000 in his heyday (1911-18); and Mrs. Iva Millicent Richardson, 53; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
Looking as if he wanted to break into a dance and a cheer, the Detroit Institute of Arts' Director Edgar P. Richardson peered through his rimless glasses at a press conference one day last week and announced: "I am about to tell the success story of a picture." What precise, soft-spoken Dr. Richardson had to tell was news indeed. The small (only 8 ¼-in. by 5 ¼in.) painting that the museum had bought in 1925 for $18,000 had at last been identified. Its painter: Jan van Eyck, one of the most highly valued Flemish artists...
Underneath the robe was the original paint, heavily damaged, but identified by Richardson as "characteristic Van Eyck color-a clear, deep crimson." As to the value of Detroit's find, one of 30-odd Van Eycks in existence, Richardson pointed out that Manhattan's Frick Collection paid a reported $750,000 for a Virgin and Child by Van Eyck and his follower, Petrus Christus. Already one dealer has offered Detroit $400,000 for its St. Jerome. But Director Richardson had a firm answer: the painting is not for sale...