Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARTISTS FOR CORE-American Federation of Arts, 41 East 65th. Just about everyone who is anyone on the New York art scene-some 200 artists ranging from Agostini to Zorach and including Motherwell, Marisol, Rothko and Rauschenberg -has contributed paintings and sculptures for the third annual exhibition and sale to benefit the Congress of Racial Equality. Through...
...said she. In fact, the only thing the twice-married Parisian artist has in common with Papa Amedeo is her painting signature, which is almost identical. But that is enough. Visiting in Israel to set up her first major solo show next month, she offered eight small works for sale. Within two hours all were snapped up for $100 to $150 each. Yet the lady still protests. "Nothing makes me angrier," says she, "than the awe and reverence with which people regard me because of my father's name...
...reluctant about becoming millionaires," says Peter Randolph, the managing director of Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. " It is prob ably going to be more worry than it is worth." Regret it as he may, Randolph will have to grin and bear it. This week Wilkinson stock goes on sale on the London Exchange for the first time -and the value of the shares retained by Randolph and other members of the family-owned company will make them all millionaires overnight. To the owners of 192-year-old Wilkinson, this is only the latest indignity heaped upon them...
...want, Wilkinson set up additional manufacturing operations in Britain, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Needing new capital to pay for this expansion, it brushed aside more than 1,000 offers from outside firms to merge or associate with it in favor of putting its stock up for sale. Although family interests will still retain a 71% control, the stock offering should yield nearly $15 million. "This share marketing is rather like leaving school," laments Randolph. "It is inevitable, but you regret...
...bill, which many senators considered a step backward for anti-discrimination in housing, specified that rooming houses renting to four or fewer boarders would not be covered by the Housing Act which was passed last year. That act forbids discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing offered publicly, with the exception of the second apartment of an owner-occupied two family house. It is widely considered one of the best such anti-discrimination laws in the nation...