Word: tates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enormous rings, the turbans and the wimples that give her the look of a fictional heroine lately escaped from a 16th century castle. She likes to dwell on the resemblance between her thin, aristocratic features and those of Elizabeth I. Before Edith's portrait in London's Tate Gallery, an American exclaimed: "Lord, she's Gothic, Gothic enough to hang bells...
...native town," Author U Nu wrote of himself in the third person, "the nickname of Tate Sanetha, Saturday-born street Arab, was well known to everybody . . .* By the age of twelve he was a heavy drinker. Often as a sequel to his drinking bouts, his stupefied little body might be seen carried home on someone's shoulder. His father, deeply ashamed and hopeless of reclaiming him, could only banish him to live as he would in a paddy godown outside the town. The boy brewed his own liquor there...
...Joellen Snow, who has four assistants to help her with foreign and domestic travel orders. Penny Keefe, whose father was a civil engineer and introduced her to the rigors of travel at an early age, handles the foreign requests. The three girls who work on domestic travel are Lucretia Tate, a onetime Eastern Air Lines representative ; Elaine Goloven, who worked with Eastern before joining the travel department of a British company; and Frances Stubbs, who learned the job starting as a bookkeeper in the Travel Bureau...
Recently Chato won Old World recognition of his taste and good works with a showing of part of his collection in Paris, Brussels, Utrecht, Bern and London. Chato himself was on hand for the sparkling opening at London's Tate Gallery. The show's 79 paintings (worth, says Chato, about $14 million) ranged from gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show...
...admiration of Renoir and actually have 29 of his works, of all periods, presently hanging. But paintings and painters do gradually use up and outlast their popularity ... In 1950 we here accepted the gift of Picasso's Nude Woman (1910), closely equivalent to the Tate's purchase. A 57th Street dealer tells us the going price for it would be $25,000, if anything equivalent were attainable−so a price of, say, $12,500 for the Tate Picasso would scarcely be at an inflated price...