Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stone and granite, Tudor style, with 39 paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold Killenworth to Stalin...
...Hootenanny was sponsored by People's Songs, Inc., a new organization of left-wing folk singers who in the past three months have given concerts to strikers in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Schenectady. Its board of directors includes the No. 1 collector of American folk music, 31-year-old Alan Lomax (TIME, Nov. 26). Said he: "We're going to put more into our songs than June moon croon spoon swoon, and sing Bilbo out of Congress...
...graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
Capt. Luckel has a nose for Miscellany. An inveterate collector of the odd in news items, he snips them out of the newspapers, jots them down from the radio. He sent us his first contribution in 1930 because it especially amused him. It was a little item about a Washington, D.C., woman who won a divorce from her husband because of an infidelity he allegedly committed 31 years previously...
Recent Trend. In Queens, New York City, Mrs. Grace Raynor, collector of accident statistics, announced that the bedroom has replaced the bathroom as the room where the most accidents occur...