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...Papanastassiou case is a dramatic example of a war being waged on libraries at a time when funds are short for all staffing, especially security. Stealing rare volumes is not new, but as prices have risen for all sorts of collector's items, the cash incentive has increased. Rare maps have disappeared from Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Two years ago, California State University at Long Beach found that 27 volumes of early editions of Captain James Cook's Voyages of Discovery, valued at $30,000, had vanished. At the University of California at Riverside...
Tracking Shot #1--A checker Marathon rolls down the Mass Pike Extension toward the Brattle. In it is the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater. Most of the traffic is headed toward Boston. At the toll the pedestrian in the sweater hands a quarter to a toll collector who barely acknowledges...
This President is not a dedicated collector. He owns one small Grandma Moses painting, one Charles Russell bronze statue of a boxer (a gift) and several contemporary western artworks. His modest gun collection came from gifts. He has no yacht-just a 12-ft. canoe, the Truluv. His stereo rig would be spurned by the average twelve-year-old. The Corum $20-gold-piece watch he sports is a ten-year-old gift from friends. A couple of years ago, he and Nancy made a pact for a mutual Christmas gift, a power log splitter...
Once the bill becomes law in early October, Justice Minister Robert Badinter intends to turn over custody of one of the two surviving guillotines to a Paris museum, where, he predicts, "it is going to have the same attraction as the Mona Lisa." An avid collector of memorabilia involving the device, Badinter purchased the document signed by Louis XVI legalizing the guillotine for executions in 1791. The King died under the blade 18 months after approving its use. Reflects Badinter: "I don't think the machine gave him much satisfaction...
DIED. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 82, maverick financier, mining tycoon, art collector and founder of the Hirshhorn Museum; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The Latvian-born Hirshhorn rose from penury to wealth through shrewd dealings in stocks, gold, uranium and oil, meanwhile amassing a high-quality hoard of 2,000 sculptures and 4,000 paintings valued at $50 million. He was persuaded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to donate his collection to establish the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., which the U.S. built eight years later at a cost of $15 million...