Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rowe says that the 3½-years he spent doing the illustrations "could hardly be called work. The project was alive." A native of Salt Lake City, Guy Rowe was a miner, cowhand, mechanic, acrobat, lumberjack and bill collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing...
...leave the Landsberg Prison gates, "you must be very poor to be making a living taking my picture." Fat, fortyish and seamy-faced, but pertly dressed in a smart green suit and loud beret, depraved Use Koch, wife of Buchenwald's commandant and renowned as a lampshade collector (human skins preferred), then proceeded to pose for the cameras while 40 black-uniformed guards watched in apathy...
...also collected a fat list of prospects and some dope about them, not all of it straight. He noted that Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, had a 6-oz. gold trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...
Radio City Playhouse (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Two playlets: The Lake and Collector's Item...
...Tavern (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC) returned to the air, it was clear that Archie was under the smartest kind of management. Rasp-voiced Ed Gardner, who plays Archie and produces the program, had accomplished the modern miracle of getting out of the reach of the tax collector...