Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More to Tap. Young Dick Gump was already running everything but finances before his father died in 1947. An amateur composer and watercolorist, Dick Gump had sharpened his collector's eye and taste on buying trips to Mexico and Italy. He directs the business from a deskless office, likes to roam through the store's three floors wearing loud-colored sport shirts. He also keeps tabs on Gump's branches in Honolulu and Carmel...
...Committee, Varsity crew, '48, '49. William Lewis Alden of Leverett House--Founder, First President of Veritas (now Ivy) Films, Co-producer of "A Touch of the Times," Leverett House Committee, House foot-ball team '46, '47, '48, House swimming team '46, House track team '48, HYRC '47, HYC '46, Collector in D.P. Student drive, European Food Relief, Harvard Combined Charities. James F. Hornig of Winthrop House--Freshman Union Committee, Vice Chairman of Student Council Special Committee on Education, Co-author of the Committee's report: Harvard Education 1948, The Student's View, Combined Charities Drive. Edward Farley Burke of Winthrop...
...book presents the life of the great financier, perennial representative at Episcopal conventions, and large-scale art collector, concentrating on one of the incidents which best illuminate the man's character and personality. He goes into detailed accounts of Morgan's financial maneuvers only to show how Morgan's role as a great organizer and leader of Wall Street was influenced by his character and how the milestones in the country's financial history brought out his character. The introduction to this theme at the beginning of the book is the same as the ending--a bit of dialogue from...
...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...
...federal tax collector, figuring that Bette Davis owed $80,820 for 1943, filed suit...