Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a heart-to-heart talk, his legislature formally quit suggesting abdication to the sporting Gaekwar of Baroda (TIME, Aug. 23), who, it said, had managed to run up an estimated $10 million tab on a six-week spree. The chastened gem collector agreed to grant "complete, responsible government" to his 3,000,000 people, and to pay back whatever the state's ministry decided he had spent...
When her doctor ordered her to rest from farm work because of her neuritis and arthritis, Grandma turned to painting, "to keep busy and out of mischief." A Manhattan art collector saw her work on display in a local drugstore, and the next year she had her first and fabulously successful New York show...
Human Hospital. As governor, Huey made Earl attorney for the Orleans Parish inheritance-tax collector-a $15,000 job he had promised to abolish in order to use the money for a tuberculosis hospital. Earl was soon earning his keep. In 1929, the legislature, infuriated by Huey's browbeating, set out to impeach him. In the midst of the excitement the Kingfish threw himself on a bed and wept. But with Earl's help, he made secret forays and counterattacks. Huey had two methods of persuasion: cash and threats. On the eve of the impeachment proceedings, 15 state...
...wander from city to city, "an immensely free citizen of the world," painting as the dawn breaks around him, or on-stormy nights when the lightning plays. Last week, two of his latest works were on display in a Manhattan gallery. They were portraits, one of a bemused art collector, the other of a wistful clown, standing against a gaudy carnival background, gazing over the head of an absurd little dog. Although the bright slashes of color were still there, some of the old violence seemed gone...
Harvard's Paul Joseph Sachs, 69, harddriving, roly-poly art historian, collector of prints and drawings, and longtime associate director of Harvard's famed Fogg Museum of Art. A onetime partner in the banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co., well-to-do Professor Sachs made Fogg the No. 1 training school for U.S. museum curators and directors...