Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale Art Gallery was the nation's first college art museum, founded in 1832 by Patriot-Painter John Trumbull to house his own canvases. Since then the gallery has grown steadily bigger and richer, and last year it added a strikingly modern, $1,500,000 wing. But for generations the student favorite at the gallery has been a thoughtful, kind-looking lady who clutches a rabbit to her velvet bosom. The painting is attributed to Piero di Cosimo, and beautifully combines Piero's relaxed good cheer with the dressy formalism of his native Florence...
...Utilitycoon Harrison Williams and chief heir to his reported $100 million, opened a flower and fruit stand on the grounds of her 60-acre Long Island estate. Planning to peddle the products of her own gardens and orchards, she saw no good reason why the rich should not grow richer. Said she: "It's not just for fun. I hope the shop will pay for itself. You don't go into business unless you plan to make money...
...about the immobility of Toledano himself, though he is far from being an empty vessel. He must sit and wait for the visual impressions which are at least half of any artist's material. But the impressions obviously crowd in upon him, to spark a fantasy life far richer than that of more mobile but less perceptive artists...
...Tlie rich grow richer, the poor poorer," wrote the bishop. "Year after year "has passed, crisis upon crisis, generation upon wasted generation, and while we live in the hopes of better days and of the public measures which shall remedy such fearful conditions, the evil grows, the wasting sickness prevails, and poverty increases its procession of victims...
IRAN is moving closer to settlement of its oil problem. Famed Oilman Torkild ("Cap") Richer (TIME, April 20) has been hired as Iran's official adviser on oil matters and is expected to work out a deal between Iran and Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. that will permit a combine of oil companies to market Iran...