Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides a fine assortment of ads for furniture, ceramics, glass, silver and other collector's items, the current issue carries such big news for antiques lovers as the discovery of the first authenticated life portrait of Revolutionary Tom Paine. The most popular feature in the magazine is "Living with Antiques," compiled by blonde, 42-year-old Editor Winchester, who lives with some antiques herself in her bachelor-girl Manhattan apartment...
Bartok: Allegro Barbara, Rumanian Dance, Suite Op. 14, etc. (Bela Bartok, pianist; Bartok Recording Studio; 2 sides LP). A collector's item-and a must for pianists who want to hear how Bartok played his own music. Originally recorded in Europe more than 15 years ago, the numbers have been well re-recorded by Bartok's son Peter...
...Fort Worth. Starting as a publisher, Carter branched out to oil, ranching and real estate. His Star-Telegram is the largest paper in Texas; he also recently built a $2,000,000 TV station. He is a friend and business associate of Richardson, and like him, a collector of Western art. Whenever he buys a Remington, he sends another to Richardson, with the bill. A combination John D. Rockefeller and Grover Whalen to Fort Worth, he is an insistent and generous host...
...Marines, who went in as early as 1910 to pacify the country, finally cleared out for good in 1933. Three years later, Somoza took over. Lindberg stayed on as his collector of customs and Nicaragua's credit strengthened steadily. Lindberg got $10,000 a year, living expenses, one of the best houses in Managua, and two months' vacation in the U.S. each year. No man to throw his money around, the customs collector skipped the dictator's all-night poker parties. But in 1944, when a sit-down strike of businessmen threatened Somoza's power, Lindberg...
Many of the documents, Jenkins found, had themselves traveled far. The only known copy of the Georgia legislative journal of 1799 was photographed in the Manhattan apartment of a private collector. A Louisiana senate journal turned up in the New York State Library at Albany. The Massachusetts State Library turned out to be a storehouse of legal records from Mississippi and Tennessee...