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July 12, 1927

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14 OLD PAINTINGS BOUGHT BY DUVEEN IN $2,500,000 DEAL; Noted Benson Collection of Works by Italian Masters to Be Sent Here. PURCHASE MADE IN LONDON Famous Group Is Representative of History of Art in the Six Principal Schools. RARE PICTURES IN THE LIST Madonna, by Titian, and Portrait of de Medici's Banking Partner and Son Are Among Them. FAMOUS ITALIAN PAINTINGS COMING TO AMERICA. 114 OLD PAINTINGS BOUGHT BY DUVEEN

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

Buys R. H. Benson's collection of Italian paintings in London, will send them to U S

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1927Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist, conductor, and educator (died 1993)[†]

Françoys Joseph Arthur Maurice Bernier was a Canadian pianist, conductor, radio producer, arts administrator, and music educator. He served as the music director of the Montreal Festivals from 1956 to 1960 and was an active conductor and a producer for CBC Radio during the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the General Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec from 1960 to 1966 and then the orchestra's Music Director from 1966 to 1968. He was also active as a teacher of conducting at a number of universities, notably serving as the first director of the Music Department at the University of Ottawa.

Conte Candoli

1927Conte Candoli, American trumpet player (died 2001)[†]

Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He played with Gerry Mulligan, and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials. He also recorded with Supersax, a Charlie Parker tribute band that consisted of a saxophone quintet, the rhythm section, and either a trumpet or trombone.

Jack Harshman

1927Jack Harshman, American baseball player (died 2013)[†]

John Elvin Harshman was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland Indians between 1948 and 1960. He batted and threw left-handed.

1927Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (died 2011)[†]

Harley Norman Hotchkiss, was a Canadian business and community leader who was best known for his contributions to health and sports development in Canada. He was part of the consortium that brought the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) to Calgary in 1980, and remained a part-owner of the Calgary Flames until shortly before his death. For much of that time, he was the team's governor, and hence the public face of the ownership group. He served as chairman of the board of the NHL between 1995 and 2007, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder in 2006.