Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Jacob Niles, well-known collector of American folk songs who appeared in a recital last night in Paine Hall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund and the Harvard Department of Music, will play and sing informally again at 8 o'clock tonight in Eliot Junior Common Room, it was announced yesterday by John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House. This additional appearance is planned for Eliot House members...
...comedy written and directed by imaginative Preston Sturges, gives Rudy Vallee his first chance to do something besides croon, and he does it in a surprisingly winning way. As a pince-nezed, third-generation Rockefeller (screen name: John D. Hackensacker III) who pursues slinky Claudette Colbert like an expectant collector after a particularly fine butterfly, Rudy is a sketch...
...While in service and for six months afterward, soldiers need not meet income-tax payments-though they will have to settle later. If a soldier is behind on local taxes on his home or personal property, the tax collector cannot foreclose on his property without court permission...
Considering that 99.99 per cent of the collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden...
...prep-school youngsters are eligible but not required to join the Corps. To wear a plain red V on his sleeve, a student must take courses in physical fitness and a war-useful subject (e.g., math), must enroll in at least one home-front job (e.g., air warden, scrap collector, farm worker...