Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modest Victorian himself was confused on one point: just how far down did a blush extend? A Frenchman had once told him that some bashful artists' models blush clear to their toes, but that hearsay evidence was not scientific enough for the great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit...
...wasn't what they said; it was how they said it. There was not a topflight voice among U.N. delegates, said Major George Robert Vincent. As chief of U.N.'s sound and recording section, he had heard them all; as the world's greatest private collector of voices (TIME, April 10, 1939)* he ought to know. Last week Voiceman Vincent analyzed some U.N. voices...
Stylianos is a 35-year-old electric-bill collector, holder of the Greek marathon† title, who lived through the misery of wartime Athens. A year ago he had an idea: Greece's first victory in 50 years of Boston Marathons might dramatize his struggling nation, gain U.S. aid for his hungry countrymen...
...living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. "The Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
Born. To Bennett A. (Try and Stop Me) Cerf, 47, joke collector, publisher (Random House-Modern Library), self-styled "superficial fellow with catholic tastes"; and Phyllis Eraser Cerf, 30, one time cinemactress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Fraser. Weight...