Word: ters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bush Terminal. Receivership for Bush Terminal Co. last week put an end to the confused controversy between Founder Irving Ter Bush and the management that succeeded his (TIME, March 27). Two outsiders, James C. Van Siclen, official referee for the New York State Supreme Court, and C. Walter Randall were appointed temporary receivers...
...luxurious Park Avenue apartment of Irving Ter Bush has for the past few years been chiefly noted as the place where his third wife. Marion Spore, painted her weird, mystically-inspired "automatic paintings" (TIME, Feb. 20). Onetime practicing dentist, later a charitarian "Angel of the Bowery," Marion Spore Bush explains that she picks up a brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush...
...seemed as much sculpture as painting. Art critics, society reporters and psychiatrists hurried over to see them for three reasons: Brilliant color and an unquestioned sense of design make them worthy of serious attention as works of art. They were painted by the third wife of wealthy Irving Ter Bush. Mrs. Bush insists that they are "automatic paintings" produced under occult control...
...Never once did I hear him say as a boy that he hoped some day to be President. ... At Stanford University every week he wrote me a letter and in each let ter were ten colored pictures. . . . The pictures were from perfumers' advertising. . . . Herbert was easy to keep house...
Arriving in Manhattan in 1906, said Claimant Morris, he accidentally encountered "Papa" who took him to the family mansion on Fifth Avenue. He heard Sis ter Ella tell "Papa": "Get out and take your brat with you." Said the "brat" (age 26): "To hell with you; you're all a pack of nuts," and went away. Only once again did he see "Papa" in years of wandering about the U. S., hopping freights, working as an itinerant laborer. He gave "Papa" scarcely another thought until about a week after Sister Ella's death, which he chanced to read about...