Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, 53, junk dealer's son who became Al Capone's chief "collector" in Chicago during Prohibition, later teamed up with Jacob ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik in the red-light and gambling rackets; after long illness; in Chicago...
Mass Conscription. In Lunenburg, Mass., the town suddenly lost its treasurer, tax collector, town clerk, board of health agent, board of selectmen's clerk and veterans' agent when Daniel P. McGuirl was recalled to active duty by the Army...
...child herding sheep on the arid plain of La Mancha, where Don Quixote started on his famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools. Later, he took him on a three-year tour...
Agnes Serpas, 29, had already had five children (the fifth delivered by Dr. Heiman) without any trouble, explained her husband, Junk Collector Charles Serpas. She was a stocky woman of 5 ft. 2 in. and 140 Ibs., and "she used to be up & around doing a big washing three days after she had a baby," he said. Last month, nearing the end of her sixth pregnancy, Mrs. Serpas felt nauseated and went to Dr. Heiman. He gave her some pills, told her he would come to her house next...
Some freshwater snails that Old sent back are the first received by the Smithsonian since a shipment by a German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...