Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olive Anne Mellor, a good-looking, 22-year-old Kansas farm girl, took a job as secretary to Planemaker Walter Beech, who had a precarious foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...
...last nine months he was with the sheriff's office, George told the committee, he was a collector for a group of deputies and received $800 weekly to be split up. He said that $300 of the money came from the S & G Syndicate, $300 from the swank Sunny Isles Casino and $200 from the operation of bolita, the Cuban numbers game. Occasional raids were made on these establishments, but only after the management had been tipped off first. In the period, George estimated he took in about $50,000 and kept...
Filling. Since those days, except for one brief (1939-40) episode when he had his own Ragtime Band and made some famous collector's items for the Bluebird label, Muggsy has been passing most of his working time as an unspectacular, if solid, fixture in Chicago and Manhattan jazz joints. Now, at 44, and playing as well as ever, he had suddenly become one of the rages of the West Coast. With his new handpicked, six-piece combo, Muggsy filled San Francisco's Hangover Club last month, is doing equally well at Tiffany...
Main obstacle in the Communists' path is a steady, soft-spoken Socialist named Harm Tuin who is the Crown-appointed burgomaster of Finsterwolde. When the Reds fired the uncooperative tax collector and social security chief, Tuin wrote The Hague and got the discharged employees reinstated. Later the Communists voted illegal benefits to striking public-work employees. Tuin wrote another letter to The Hague, got the project vetoed by return mail. A Red alderman snarled: "We will settle with people of your sort...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...