Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sebastian's older brother, Lord Brideshead, was an avid collector of matchboxes. Sebastian's sister, Julia, was like a "Renaissance tragedy. . . . Dogs and children love her . . . my dear, she's a fiend. . . . There ought to be an Inquisition especially set up to burn...
Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan...
...cauliflower ear of the prize fighter is well known. Less familiar are the banged-up "dealer shins" of the junk dealer, garbage collector, truck driver, foundry worker...
...inventor is Hollywood's versatile Ulrich L. ("Doc") Di Ghilini, professional magician, exposer of spiritualistic fakes and amateur art collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
...interest in stage design began with ballet, which was a logical development from the pictures he had been painting: ceremonial native dances of Haiti and Cuba. The Picasso-like touches in some of his paintings were equally logical. Junyer grew up in Barcelona, where his father was a collector of Spanish Romanesque art and one of Pablo Picasso's early patrons. When the boy, who lost his hearing while still a child, went to Paris to start his painting career he fascinated the great Pablo by his uncanny mastery of lipreading...