Word: pomerantz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago & London. One answer came in Chicago, where the mystery was whether Georges Seurat had originally included his only self-portrait as a mirror image in his famous painting of his mistress, Young Woman Powdering. Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich and Painting Conservator Louis Pomerantz, taking advantage of the loan of the painting from London's Courtauld Institute for the Chicago Seurat show (TIME, Jan. 20), decided to test the legend by X ray. To their delight, they found beneath the paint the blurred outline of a man's head. The discovery tended to confirm...
...Charles Pomerantz, 54, an immigrant from Poland who did well in Manhattan's garment industry, switched to the exterminating business because he thought it offered more chance for public service. In 1946, a new disease, Rickettsialpox, broke out in Queens, and Pomerantz tracked down the carrier-a tiny mite carried by mice. In his honor, a new species of flea, found in the Philippines, has now been named Stivalius pomerantzi...
Eagle's Eye. As Pomerantz' fees go, this was small. Some of his bigger cases and fees for representing stockholders...
...Manhattan's National City Bank's ex-Chairman Charles E. Mitchell and associates were forced to repay the bank $1,800,000 because of fat bonuses paid to management. Pomerantz...
Little protested that he had abstained from voting on any of the deals involving Textron. But last week, deciding that he had had enough, Textron's Little agreed to have his lawyers work out a settlement with Pomerantz. This week a settlement equivalent to $600,000 was before the court and stockholders for approval. Pomerantz was asking...