Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
Last week, in the American University's Watkins Gallery in Washington, D.C., the windfall result of their modest collecting spree was on view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). A Walk in the Forest, a play about a young student who could be a fine scientist but goes off on a collegiate spree...
...close of their six-week tour of India honoring the 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha-and celebrated in a great big way. Picking up $105,000 petty cash one morning at Calcutta's Communist-capitalist Bank of China, the Dalai Lama continued his madcap spending spree. No haggler, the Lama snapped up a $1,300 diamond-studded watch; when told it was a bit costly, he emitted a hearty, innocent laugh. He also amassed some German cameras, Swiss watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew...
Collector's Spree. The new World House Galleries is the brain child of TV-Station Pioneer Herbert Mayer. 48, who three years ago sold the last of his TV stations* for $8,500,000, took off for a European vacation that soon turned into an art-collecting spree (including the purchase of 51 Rodin sculptures). With a new hobby on his hands, Collector Mayer decided to turn it into a business, set up a network of buying agents and talent scouts. His goal: to exhibit "the best contemporary art from as many nations as create...