Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes a guillotine murder, followed in rapid succession by an icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...
...read your item about Mrs. Margaret Lockwood, [who protested the Internal Revenue Service's attachment of her husband's paycheck by camping with her two infants at the tax collector's desk-Sept. 7]. We had similar troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. They attached my husband's check, and it was either pay up or lose his job. The ironic part of the whole deal was that it was their mistake, and a five-year-old error, at that. Hurrah for Mrs. Lockwood...
...couple of Broadway turkeys slowed him hardly at all. He moved to Hollywood, began to grind out TV shows, a movie script and, finally, The Marriage-Go-Round. Everything he touched turned to money. And as he tried to fend off the tax collector, his corporate complex became as complicated as any in the New Hollywood, where tax angles are more important than camera angles...
...Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace was Samuel Adams, cousin of John, a dumpy, inquisitive politician who had left his job as Boston tax collector when his accounts were found ?8,000 in arrears. Unlike most of the other colonial leaders, he wanted not merely rectification of parliamentary wrongs but independence...
Next, René found a wastebasket and enthusiastically overturned it. A clerk spoke sharply to her and she started to scream. Baby Robbie thereupon joined in lustily. At last, after 4½ hours, the harried tax collector surrendered. Margaret Lockwood was told that her husband's check had been released, and she could pick it up at his office. Bob Lockwood would have another chance to talk over the claims against him; even if back taxes were actually due, they could be paid in small installments. And across the U.S., tax collectors braced themselves for a tide of determined...