Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before he put them...
...Pont-owned Wilmington newspapers. For 24 hours the company changes outheadlined the war. But the startling fact of a non-Du Pont in the presidency meant no change in the family control, no shift, rift or difference in policy. Lively Henry Belin du Pont, 41, dog fancier, aviator and vice president, specialist in engineering, purchases and sales, stands ready to bring the Du Pont name back to the president's office when energetic Walter Carpenter eventually gets ready to step...
Died. Samuel Untermyer, 81, smart Manhattan attorney, orchid fancier and politico; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. Lawyer Untermyer made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller...
Tops in both prestige and sales from 1883 to 1939 was the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, which auctioned over $160,000,000 worth of art. Every big U. S. art fancier knew its dignified building on Manhattan's esthetic 57th Street, its shrewdly-lit, velvet-draped auction stage. But spooks lurked behind that arras. Last summer the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries folded up for nonpayment of debts (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week its two partners gave Manhattan its best mystery story since Drug Dealer Frank Donald Coster (TIME. Dec. 19, 1938, et seq.). Tabloids christened...
...Spook Fancier. Stanley Baldwin would rather have tended his garden than preside over a Cabinet meeting. Sir Edward Grey liked birds more than diplomatic reports. Lord Halifax once said with evident truth: "I would rather be a Master of Foxhounds than Prime Minister." That is natural, for Edward Wood grew up outdoors on his father's spacious estate at Garrowby, Yorkshire, where he learned to ride as soon as to walk. His pious father, the second Viscount Halifax, was for 60 years the leader of the High Church party whose never realized dream was to reunite the Church...