Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken advantage of "freedom" to arrange some lucrative deals on the side. And why not? asked Minister of Transport and Communications Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who has acquired four mansions in Accra since he became a government minister. Before independence he used to earn $22 a month as a debt collector for a newspaper; now he earns nearly $1,400. "When I receive my salary am I expected to throw it into the sea?" he demanded. "I must not build a house, or buy a car, or enjoy the fruits of my labor? If that is so, the Osagyefo must explain...
Died. Robert Garrett, 85, Baltimore banker, collector of ancient Oriental manuscripts, and last survivor of the 13-man U.S. squad that won the unofficial team victory in the first modern Olympiad in 1896; of arteriosclerosis; in Baltimore. After arriving in Athens tired and out of shape a day before the Games began, Garrett, then a Princeton junior, unkinked quickly, finished first in the shotput and the discus throw (which he had never tried before), took second in the broad jump and high jump...
...Collector Merle Armitage's huffing against Henry Koerner's art should not go unanswered. New insights always strike some people as "inexcusable." Koerner's Leontyne Price portrait seemed to me astonishing, disturbing, beautiful, profound...
...time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter was an art collector with a special passion...
...running of the bulls at Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises. Fetes end, Due tells himself, when there is a fall from what sportsmen call "form," mystics call "grace" and gamblers call "luck." What actually happens is that intensity of sensation lacks duration. The Hemingway hero is a collector of great moments, but he refuses to acknowledge pauses or intermissions. He calls for madder music and redder wine, and if that fails, he pronounces that phase of his life dead. The activism of Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning...