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...Jarves, whose collection was eventually auctioned off to cover his debts and bought by Yale for a bargain $22,000, is represented in the CRIA exhibit by a Sienese wood panel Annunciation, by Francesco di Giorgio and Neroccio dei Landi. The precise taste of turn-of-the-century Railway Heir Henry Walters is illustrated by the three exquisitely patinaed bronzes lent by the Walters Art Gallery, in Baltimore, which he founded. The spirit of J. P. Morgan, whose lavish purchases bulled the art market to unprecedented heights before World War I, is evoked by the five manuscripts lent by Manhattan...
...Krupp had grown remote and bitter as life delivered its blows. One of these was his six-year imprisonment (1945-51) as a war criminal. Then there was his son Arndt, a limp fellow of 29 who renounced his inheritance last year, leaving the House of Krupp without an heir for the first time in five generations. Arndt's $250,000-a-year allowance (which now goes to $500,000) may have made the decision easy, but two weeks ago he said that the "Krupp tradition" had only "brought my forebears a lot of unhappiness." Moreover, said Arndt...
...deny Macbeth's ambition. Sure, he wanted to be king. But he had every right to expect that he would be anyhow, for it must be remembered that in 11th-century Scotland the kingship was an elective office and that Duncan's public announcement making his son Malcolm the heir-apparent was actually illegal. When Macbeth and Banquo first hear the Witches prophecies, they laugh at them until the noblemen enter to prove the first prophecy true. Later, when Lady Macbeth is egging her husband on, Colicos not only says, "Prithee, peace," but also strikes her to the floor...
...million when he died at 88 in 1959. Of this bounteous legacy, about $37 million will go straight to Uncle Sam and another $13 million to the state, leaving 26 legatees to scramble for the $14 million remaining. A keener student of the tax game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died at 63 in 1963, took it all with him and more. Unable to get along on his $150,000 yearly income from a trust fund, Dodge managed to borrow at least $10 million from his mother, Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge, 99, to bankroll his wining...
Married. Constantine FitzGibbon, 48, prolific American-born novelist (When the Kissing Had to Stop) and biographer (The Life of Dylan Thomas); and Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 37, a sometime painter more widely remembered for forfeiting a cool $60,000 annual alimony from her first husband, A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, to marry No. 2, British Actor Dudley Sutton; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Bantry, Ireland...