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...English Portraitists: Gainsborough. Reynolds and Romney are returning to favor, though nowhere near the inflated level to which Lord Duveen, the famed Seeing Eye dealer for U.S. millionaires, pushed them during the boom of the 1920s. Then, wealthy Easterners (e.g., Andrew Mellon, Jules Bache) bought them; now, Texas oilmen do. The wide-ranging oilmen, one happy dealer explained last week, "prefer to buy their English pictures in England...
More Than Trust. In spite of all these troubles, the college had begun to occupy a special place in Turkey. When the Sultan's decree lost its power, young Turks began to flock to it. In the 1920s, the new republic was hungry for new ideas, and eventually Robert could claim such alumni as Selim Sarper, Turkey's Ambassador to the U.N., Haydar Cork, Ambassador to the U.S., and Kasim Gulek, secretary-general of the Republican People's Party. Robert has never tried to Americanize its students; it has merely tried to give them a first-rate...
...Manhattan's LEOPOLD SILBERSTEIN, 51, who started out as a "professor of sick companies" in Germany during the 1920s, made his first U.S. raid by buying 75,000 shares (of 148,000 outstanding) in the small, shaky Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp. With that as a base, he diversified into gas and oil, went on to take over companies making cables, power shovels, and cranes (Industrial Brownhoist Corp.). With cash from his growing empire (now called Penn-Texas Corp.), he recently bought 80,000 shares of machine tool maker Niles-Bement-Pond, whose stock was selling a few points below...
...inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual orgies of the time, but he also kept a secretly detached position, regarding himself as a pauper living among millionaires . . . a sullen peasant among the nobility...
Died. Max Pechstein, 73, leading German expressionist painter, lecturer at the Berlin Academy of Plastic Arts; in Berlin. A leader of pre-World War I German impressionists, Pechstein built an international reputation in the 1920s, was denounced as "decadent" by the Nazis, saw most of his canvases destroyed during the war, returned to Berlin afterward to repaint many of his early works from memory (TIME...