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...familiar face was Price, veteran of more than 50 films and a collector for 30 years. The short sports coat was Harry Sundheim Jr., a Chicago businessman and also a collector. The dark suit was Lester Salkow, a Los Angeles theatrical agent who is Price's business manager. The three were buying original art for Sears, Roebuck, which will sell it to the public along with snow removers, Oxford cloth shirts, storm windows and mink coats...
...selling original art (in stores, not by catalogue) last fall as part of its program of self-sophistication. The pictures sold so well that now Sears is in the art dodge big. The originator of the idea was George H. Struthers, vice president for merchandising, who enlisted his friend Sundheim, who in turn enlisted Price. "My whole life has been spent in trying to interest people in fine art," says Price, and after bulk buying all over the U.S., he moved across the Atlantic...
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