Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
...That the currents in the digestive tract can be reversed by worry was well shown by a nervous young woman who one day received a menacing letter from the income-tax collector. This so frightened her that . . . she took to her bed and vomited day & night for a week. She stopped only when . . . I went to the Custom House and appeased Uncle Samuel with...
...learned papers about films for the Princeton art and archaeology department Bulletin, and the defunct, advance-guard expatriate quarterly transition. For a rest after completing his monumental job on Dürer, Panofsky retired to his Kennebunkport retreat, where he spends much time with his friend and neighbor, Art Collector Booth Tarkington...
...next issues of the SERVICE NEWS there will appear a statement prepared by the Boston Collector of Internal Revenue and Lt. (jg) L. F. Worley, Supply Officer of the Naval Training Schools (Communications and Radar), on the new Current Tax Payment...
...busying himself with bird feathers in Los Angeles. Members of the armed forces in the South Pacific have been sending samples of outlandish plumage back to their girls, unaware that an old wildlife protection measure forbids the importation of undomesticated plumes. The barnyard kind are all right. As Port Collector of Customs, Bryan so far has faithfully snatched from the mails an even hundred wild plumes...