Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...echoed across the House floor, the Administration was deserted by many of its own leaders, including Louisiana's Hale Boggs and Arkansas' Wilbur Mills and Oren Harris. "I certainly never thought we'd get a licking like that,'' said New Jersey's Frank Thompson, author of the compromise bill, when the voting was done. "We lost some guys out there who wouldn't dare vote against the bill itself if it actually got to the floor...
...sensational a theft would be enough to give any museum director the jitters, but it was only the latest of a series of baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...
...burglaries all over, a lot of crooks of the wrong kind are getting into art theft. Last week the police were looking for the vandalous and amateur burglar or burglars who jimmied the front door of the house of Pittsburgh's famed art buyer, Steelman G. David Thompson, and ransacked his collection...
...Thompson, crushed that while going out for the evening he had forgotten to turn on his elaborate burglar alarm, took the crudity of the theft to mean that no professional burglar had been at work. Only a fat reward, with no questions to be asked, he decided, might bring back the loot, and he at once offered...
...bright idea. Selz simply asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...