Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long, Red Curls. Jack, a quiet, neat child with long, red curls, began working at eleven, helping his mother sell crockery from a pushcart. After graduating as senior class president from Manhattan's George Washington High School, he worked as a lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when...
NOTHING THRILLED US HALF AS MUCH (Epic). This reissue of The Best of Fred Astaire is decidedly a collector's item: original recordings of such favorites as Cheek to Cheek, Slap That Bass and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, sung and danced (the tapping is almost as expressive as the lyrics) by the master...
...King, Louis XIV, in 1687, it was a delight in pink and green Languedoc marble and, for all its 70 rooms, was considered intimate by a King's standards at that time. Even royal princes had to ask permission to visit. "Delicious gardens!" exclaimed that great collector of court gossip, the Duc de Saint-Simon. And in Louis XIV's day, the gardens did not stop at the doors; his mistress, Madame de Maintenon, liked to change color and perfume by rearranging the Trianon's million flower pots daily...
...with a supply of positive ions. Picked up by the passing ash as it is boosted along by the hot gas, those ions move down the tube creating, in effect, an electric current. The electrical resistance that develops is overcome by the energy of the moving gas, and a collector electrode picks the positive ions off the fly ash at the end of the tube. The electrical circuit is completed when ions flow from the collector electrode, down a transmission line, and back to the corona discharge electrode where they began their trip...
...Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent on vengeance...