Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present Lord Talbot de Malahide, who launched a treasure hunt of his own after inheriting the title in 1948 from Boswell's great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...
After months of chasing and capturing atomic spies, the FBI finally made an inevitable announcement last week: its Denver agents had arrested an atomic souvenir collector. The G-Men announced the gist of the case with their usual deadpan gravity. The accused was a 28-year-old University of Denver metallurgical engineer named Sanford Lawrence Simons. He had admitted that while working at Los Alamos in 1946 he had stolen a pinhead-sized piece of plutonium and kept it buried under his house for four years...
Silly or not, the Government vfas convinced that Collector Simons wa6 telling the truth-there was absolutely no evidence that he had acted on anything but an odd impulse. But for all that, he was arraigned and, until $10,000 bail was put up for him, was hustled off to jail...
...despite its brass bosses, is actually a civilian agency which operates as a collector and clearing house of information about the intentions of other nations. It shuns publicity, gets little public attention until something blows up. When something blew up in Korea, U.S. Senators demanded to know why CIA had not given adequate warning. Admiral Hillenkoetter said that CIA had in fact known about heavy North Korean concentrations and had passed the information on. He insisted that CIA's job was merely to report to the departments concerned-State, Defense, etc.-on how things looked...
...lute with what Vasari grudgingly described as "no little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...