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Many expected that the villa, the gardens and the collection might all be turned into a museum. But for Von Hirsch collecting was a magnificent obsession. Thus before he died last November at the age of 94, he set aside a few personal bequests and then decreed that the rest...
Nothing deterred him. Three times Jarvis tried and failed to get property taxes rolled back. Suddenly, in the past year, soaring property taxes, ever-rising state and federal taxes and the prospect of double-digit inflation combined to wed Jarvis' obsession to the public's anger. The old...
If artists were comic-strip heroes, Horace Clifford Westermann would be Popeye. The gimlet stare, the laconic speech, the cigar stub jutting like a bowsprit from the face, the seafaring background and fo'c'sle oaths, the muscular arm-all are there. He signs his work with an...
For most of her life, writes Mina Curtiss, she had an incurable obsession: she could not resist reading other people's mail. When she was a child, Mina was caught going through her mother's love letters in the attic. Shortly after she returned from her honeymoon, she...
Rising taxes are a burning concern all over the U.S. In California, they are nothing less than an obsession, and small wonder. Already saddled with one of the highest state income taxes in the nation, many Californians were hit last week with new assessments on their homes that could send...