![]() ![]() In the late 1950s Hammer acquired Occidental Petroleum, a faltering oil firm dating back to the 1920s. At that time Hammer was also a breeder of prize Angus cattle and a manufacturer of whisky. In 1941 he used a similar method of retailing fine art to liquidate the art treasures of the millionaire American publisher William Randolph Hearst. The first of these sales featured pieces of the treasure of the Romanovs, the last Russian royal family, assassinated in 1918 when the Bolsheviks came to power the treasure had been secured by Hammer while he was in Russia. ![]() Hammer had a daughter out of wedlock in 1956 with Bettye Murphy, his mistress of many years.ĭuring the Great Depression, Hammer sponsored a series of retail art sales at prominent department stores in New York City and elsewhere. He married his second wife, Angela Carey Zevely, an opera singer, the same year they divorced in January of 1956. Hammer married Olga van Root, a singer he met in the Soviet Union, in 1927 they had a son, Hammer's only legitimate child, and divorced in 1943. Over the next few years, Hammer continued to travel back and forth between the two countries, nurturing a variety of business interests. In 1925 Hammer built a successful pencil factory in the Soviet Union, which he sold back to the Soviet government before returning to the United States in 1928. Hammer operated the family pharmaceutical firm while earning his medical degree from Columbia University Medical School and developed the company into a million-dollar venture.Īfter graduating in 1921, Hammer went to Soviet Russia, where he developed a unique rapport with Vladimir Lenin, the first premier of the USSR, and secured the rights to export grain to Russia. Communist Party, named him for the Communist Party arm-and-hammer symbol. (Rose Lipschitz also had a son from a previous marriage.) An interesting legend that circulated about Hammer's name is that Hammer's father, leader of the U.S. Hammer was one of two sons of the Russian immigrants Julius Hammer, a physician and the owner of a pharmaceutical outlet, and Rose Lipschitz. 10 December 1990 in Los Angeles, California), controversial twentieth-century industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist with business and family ties to Soviet Russia, who, during the 1960s, rescued Occidental Petroleum Company from the brink of financial ruin. This is when you buy a beautiful house only to discover, hidden behind a heavy bookcase, a stairway twisting up and away into the darkness.( b. This isn’t just the genre’s most insistent contemporary voices paired with arguably its best producer. Still, there is a natural rapport that belies the New York-to-Los Angeles-and-back nature of the project, allowing Haram to be more than the sum of its parts, however impressive those parts may be. Earl Sweatshirt makes a sun-soaked appearance, while Curly Castro and Amani mix like ice and salt on Brooklyn sidewalks and Quelle Chris, as always, finds a pocket all his own. KAYANA’s golden voice upps the wattage on “Black Sunlight,” while Fielded’s sultry alto gets chopped and screwed on “Aubergine”. The artists are joined by their friends and fellow travelers on this journey. Haram is a collection of the profane and the pure a reminder that that which is forbidden is also sacrosanct. ![]() With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface, black and bonecrushingly cold at depth. For the first time ELUCID and billy woods have crafted an album with a single producer and the result is extraordinary. Haram is a mercurial collaboration between incendiary rap duo Armand Hammer, and living legend The Alchemist. "Armand Hammer raps from another dimension, it's on us to catch up." ![]()
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