Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is special reason for optimism: President Eisenhower may become a symbol for the crusade against heart disease, just as Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolized polio. Although the association has sternly forbidden any official use of the Eisenhower name, charitarians estimate that the President's heart attack will be worth at least $4,000,000 in additional revenue for the association...
...better position to judge that than Mexico's No. 1 art collector, millionaire Drug Manufacturer Dr. Alvaro Carillo Gil, who for more than 20 years befriended all three painters, today owns 500 modern Mexican works worth $2,000,-000. Says Collector Carillo: "In Mexico we seem to have reached our last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge...
...once pointed out. And as an investment, most collectors have found art to be right on a par with the bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait of a Young Girl, recently on loan to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, cost $350,000; judged as real estate, it is worth $1,252 per sq. in. (v. $2.10 per sq. in. for the House of Morgan's Wall Street terrain). A Cezanne that could be bought for about $100 when it was first shown in 1895 today fetches around $113,000. Notes FORTUNE: "General Motors has done a little better...
...Market confidence" is a big factor in the current art boom, but as in the stock market, the experts have sometimes been caught with their stocks down. Items: John Singer Sargent's watercolors, worth $20,000 in the '205, today can be picked up for around $1,000. Alphonse de Neu-ville's flagwaving scene from the Franco-Prussian war, The. Last Cartridges, whooped up to $40,000 in gold in 1890, was auctioned off six years...
CRIME FOR Two, edited by Frances and Richard Lockridge (256 pp.; Lippincott; $3), is a collection of short stories by members of the Mystery Writers of America. All the yarns have previously appeared; most of them are worth reprinting. The volume contains some expert craftsmanship by such pros as Q. Patrick, Michael Gilbert, Ellery Queen, Brett Halliday and Margery Allingham...