Word: collector
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Convicted last week for misconduct as a U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue: James P. Finnegan, 51, once a Fair Deal influence peddler and trusted crony of Harry Truman. After a nine-day trial in St. Louis' federal court, a jury found Finnegan guilty of illegally accepting some $8,000 in fees from two private companies for helping them collect a claim and a loan from the U.S. Government...
...world's No. 1 rare book dealer and one of its most avid collectors is Philadelphia's Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach. Last week Rosenbach announced that he had sold his famous collection of Shakespeares-73 prized folios and quartos of plays and sonnets, many of them first editions in excellent condition. The buyer: Europe's outstanding collector, Dr. Martin Bodmer, Swiss banker and vice president of the International Red Cross. The price: something over...
...private collector in modern times has ever assembled a Shakespeare library* to compare with Dr. Rosenbach's. Beginning in 1907, when he bought his first First Folio for about $18,000, "Rosy" Rosenbach has taken everything that came in sight. He bought all four folios of the collected plays published between 1623 and 1685. He paid close to $75,000 for a splendid, mint-condition copy of the First Folio, and $21,000 for a first edition (1600) of Much Ado About Nothing. His Troilus and Cressida, dated 1609, is the only known uncut copy of any play published...
...Collector Rosenbach sell his library to Europe instead of keeping it in the U.S.? Old (75) Dr. Rosenbach did not say. But John Fleming, his agent and vice president of his bookstore, blamed it on high taxes and the leveling off of great U.S. fortunes. Said Fleming: "Individuals here have lost the initiative to support our cultural institutions...
Grand Right and Left, by Louis Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compul sions as a collector (TIME...