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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Demarest, who wrote the story on the growing rage to collect everything from Bruegels to Barbie dolls, is a traditionalist in these matters. "A Louis XV marquetry cabinet would be nice," he says, "though I would be quite content to receive a second painting by Jack Yeats [Poet William Butler Yeats' brother] to go with the one I have." Demarest began covering the auction scene-and, inevitably, acquiring some treasures for himself-while stationed in TIME'S London bureau from 1958 to 1961. "It was convenient," he says, "and I got very good advice. Sotheby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...blue-collar employees have already agreed to forgo expected wage increases amounting to $203 million in the next three years, Congress insists that an extra $259.5 million be cut. This will force Chrysler and the United Auto Workers to renegotiate the contract that they concluded in November. Said Senator William Roth, the Delaware Republican: "Our proposal would have to be ratified by the workers. Ultimately, it is up to them." White collar employees will also be hit; their wage packages are to be trimmed by $125 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Santa Calls on Chrysler | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...auction firms also assiduously cultivate known collectors in the hope that, alive or dead, they will some day assign their possessions to the market: auction executives are among the world's most diligent readers of obituary pages. William Doyle, the ebullient Boston-Irish owner of a seven-year-old Manhattan house, who expects to gross $15 million this fiscal year, flies in his own plane to reconnoiter rumored treasures. On a trip to Warrensburg, N.Y., he found a trunkful of letters autographed by five of the signers of the Declaration of Independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Michael Learned, 40, Emmy Award-winning Mama on television's The Waltons; and her live-in companion of three years, William Parker, 33, a TV scriptwriter; she for the third time, he for the first; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

FICTION: Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Passion Play, Jerzy Kosinski ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth ∙ Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, Edited by Joseph Blotner

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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