Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will "20th Century Prints by Contemporary Artists" in the Hemicycle and "English and French Watercolors" in the Watercolor Corridor. A display in the Book Corridor will demonstrate "French Design and Decoration for the Craftsman of the 18th Century." In Gallery D 45 a display of communion silver from the First Parish Congregational Church in Milton will begin on Sunday. Recent accessions on display include 16th and 17th century Dutch, Flemish, and Italian paintings...
Peeled off The Big Bankroll, Leo Katcher's popular biography of Under-worldling Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928). Jo Swerling's script tells the sordid story of a boy who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth and uses it to sup with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally...
...Bonwit Teller and Atlantic Refining. Last week, after 16 months of restless ease, Odlum proved the smart money right, swung back into action as chairman of Salt Lake City's Federal Resources Corp. Federal's assets are a paltry (for Odlum) $6.6 million in beryllium, uranium and silver mines. But Odlum argues that "although the future of this company is over the horizon, the horizon is not too far away...
...hours), or for the host to rent five dozen highball glasses ($7.50) for New Year's Eve. Says a Los Angeles housewife: "We give a big party once a year, and even if it costs a little, I'd rather rent the china and silver I need than ransack the neighborhood borrowing extra cups and plates." Few customers show any signs of embarrassment. Explains a Chicago hostess: "No one would try to pass off rented silverware as her own. It would be like introducing the caterer as your butler...
Manhattanites, gregarious types that they are, can rent a subway if they have use for it (500 members of the New York Telephone Co.'s Retired Club chartered a five-car subway for a trip to Coney Island this week). Jean's Silversmiths supplies fine silver place settings, to match the renter's own, at about $50 for a dozen six-piece settings, or fine crystal goblets at $24 a dozen (but the renter may have to pay $240 for the whole set if one goblet breaks). The New York Circulating Library of Paintings rents...