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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years as mayor, Daley faced strikes aplenty; yet he had a knack of finessing and postponing problems until, sooner or later, they went away. Combative Jane Byrne, however, makes the mistake of attacking labor unions and other groups rather than hunkering down with them in search of a compromise...
...pretty penny at auction these days, things of beauty and lasting worth-"objects of virtue" to the trade-are going for sums that would boggle the I of Claudius. Ars gratia auctionis. Throughout the U.S. and the rest of the West, once listless salesrooms thrum with auctiophiliacs in search of a piece of the past; the top firms hold several simultaneous sales a day six days a week. In 1979 Sotheby's and Christie's, the two London-based giants of the international fine arts auction business, together have netted $702 million worldwide. Nor does anyone expect recession...
...ferociously competitive business, similar tactics of search and cultivation are used by major auction houses across the U.S.: Robert W. Skinner Gallery in Bolton, Mass.; Adam A. Weschler & Son and C.G. Sloan & Co. in Washington, D.C.; Mortons in New Orleans; San Francisco's Butterfield & Butterfield; West Palm Beach's Trosby Auction Galleries. The so-called country auction where the city slicker might once snap up for a song a Revere salver or a federal highboy is as distant a memory as the nickel newspaper. Says Scudder Smith, editor of Antiques and Arts Weekly, "You look around some...
Today the pendulum is swinging back in favor of preaching. When search committees are scouting about for a minister to hire, the top things they are likely to look for are, as an old adage puts it, 1) Preaching. 2) Preaching. 3) Preaching. Right now there are around 200,000 Protestant preachers in America. Anyone presuming to choose the best would be guilty of the sin of pride, not to mention some shortage of charity and common sense. The following seven stars of the pulpit selected by TIME'S editors and correspondents across the country are at the very...
...Race) and Hollywood memoirist, is wooden in his overall structure but energetic in his scenes. The Fatty Arbuckle party that led to his sex scandal, trial, ruin and censorship; Greta Garbo's slow but sure rise to stardom amid the "ah-rintch" groves, and the pandemoniac search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. Much space is devoted to a novelization of the rise and fall of Marilyn Monroe. Farber's conclusion: Hollywood did not kill her; "it was just a case of bad luck, mismanagement. She met the wrong people, she got bad advice...