Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoof. In El Paso, Deputy Customs Collector Herman F. Cherry revealed that a surprise inspection at the Juarez bridge turned up: 1) 32 Ibs. of meat inside a spare tire; 2) an 8-lb. beef roast in a woman's purse; 3) a huge, raw, unwrapped round steak being worn as a girdle...
Last week Edward G. Robinson, cinema tough guy, told a distinguished audience at the Philadelphia Museum of Art how he got started as a great collector of modern French paintings. It all went back to his childhood...
...Treasury of Immortal Performances (Victor; 6 vols. 45 r.p.m.). To match Caruso, Paderewski and Kreisler in its classical Treasury series, Victor has combed its old jazz and pop files, reissued such collector's items as Fats Waller's Honeysuckle Rose, Bunny Berigan's In a Mist, Benny Goodman's Goodbye...
Rubens, who was fond of the picture himself, once described it more modestly in a letter offering it for sale to a 17th Century collector: "A Prometheus bound on Mount Caucasus; with an Eagle which pecks his liver. Original, by my hand, and the Eagle done by Snyders.* Nine feet high by eight feet wide." Rubens' asking price was also modest: 500 florins (about...
Tools of the Trade. In Toronto, Kenneth Coughlin, charged with "carrying an offensive weapon," was dismissed after he explained to the court that he needed his brass knuckles for self-defense in his job as a rent collector...