Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brouhaha), and asked her to buy his curio-crammed museum-mansion until he could raise the money to buy it back. Mrs. Logan found $17,500 and Wash Porter took other quarters. Last week, because he was sure the Logans were planning to sell some of his fanciest items, Collector Porter resolved to reoccupy his lakeshore fastness, and taking friends and reporters along broke in at dawn. Drawing on cellar stocks with which to withstand the longest siege, he cried: "A man's house is his castle. I defy anyone...
...Collector Mellon's $50,000,000 worth of pictures and sculptures, 5-io-25-cent Storeman Samuel Henry Kress two years ago had added another $30,000,000 worth...
...first of these is called the H.R.S. Rag, and is published by the Hot Record Society of New York. Its editor, Heywood Hale Broun, is a collector and critic whose work has included the tough assignment of going to New Orleans and recording the music of some of the oldest jazz artists in the country. Besides this he's a budding newspaperman (sportswriter on PM) and has the right idea on how to put a paper together. Every issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days...
Thirty-one-year-old, wavy-haired Walter P. Chrysler Jr., scion of Chrysler Motors, has collected paintings since he was 14. He probably owns more modern French art than any U. S. collector except Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Albert ("Argyrol") Barnes. Up to last week, Collector Chrysler had never showed the public how much...
...last week young Mr. Chrysler got his chance. Richmond's five-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look. To do right by the occasion, Collector Chrysler chartered a private railroad car, arrived in Richmond with 58 convivial friends. While a 15-piece orchestra played waltzes by Johann Strauss, Mr. Chrysler and friends leaped joyfully up the Museum's wide staircases to his very own art show...