Word: selleck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nebraska's richest woman, Sarah Selleck Joslyn, opened her $3,000,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial on an Omaha Hill. It is an art museum in memory of her late husband George who made his fortune from a remedy for venereal disease ("Big G") and from the Western Newspaper Union (boilerplate insides for small newspapers). For her Memorial Room she wanted an oil portrait of her spouse. After several painters had refused to do a reconstruction painting from photographs, Chicago Painter Paul Trebilcock did the job. In January the portrait was hung in the Joslyn Memorial but Mrs. Joslyn...
...your article concerning the Joslyn Art Museum at Omaha you describe its donor, Mrs. Sarah Selleck Joslyn, as eccentric and sometimes known as the "Corn Belt's" Hetty Green (TIME, Jan. 11). Several years ago Mrs. Joslyn was voted Omaha's most useful citizen by the American Legion, and the only true comparison to Hetty Green, is her possession of wealth. She should not be described as eccentric, unless this word is used to describe philanthropy and unselfishness -two attributes Mrs. Joslyn possesses and Hetty Green lacked. You have also sacrificed accuracy for sensation alism in describing...