Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia, a trash collector put CBS-TV's What in the World temporarily off the air. The show, a panel program on which three experts try to identify various articles from museum collections, had to substitute an old kinescope for last week's show when it was discovered that nine valuable museum pieces had vanished from the studios of station WCAU-TV. The articles-a bronze spearhead, a Balinese wood carving, a bronze Indian antelope and some African sculpture-were recovered from a city dump six miles away. Said the trash remover: "I looked over the things after...
...took a double first in modern languages and history, then was elected a fellow of Corpus Christi. A fellow student was Sydney Courtauld, only daughter of the late textile millionaire and art collector Samuel Courtauld. Dark, handsome, intensely -interested in politics, she was attracted by Rab's intelligence and drive. In 1926 they were married. His wife brought Rab wealth, entree into the famous Tory homes of Mayfair, and, eventually, a constituency-Saffron Walden in Essex County, where Courtauld had a country house in which the Butlers now live. From there, in 1929, Rab was elected to Parliament...
Although Washington barbers ' pride themselves on knowing everybody who is anybody, it was not surprising that the barber did not know T. (for Thomas) Coleman Andrews, who this week, at least, ranks as one of the biggest somebodies in the U.S. Since he became the top U.S. tax collector in January 1953, Andrews has buried himself so deeply in his work that he has acquired a label: "The most anonymous man in town...
...work to be done when Andrews took over the graft-and politics-ridden revenue service last year. He set a challenging goal: to restore public confidence in the revenue service and to re-create the impression that no one can cheat the federal income-tax collector...
...total of ?12,000 ($33,600). Twelve more were reserved by buyers in what turned out to be one of the biggest stampedes for the works of an almost unknown artist London has ever seen. Among the customers: Actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Attenborough, Collector Lord Ivor Churchill, and Ohio's Toledo Museum...