Word: collectors
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...Duan was a bit of a dandy, fond of neatly pressed Western-style suits. But he had led a troubled life. He had twice been sentenced to jail for robbery, and he was estranged from his father, Duan Shengqing, a trash collector whom he blamed for the family's poverty. "He'd say other people's dads earned money, but that I can't read and can't do anything," recalls his father. Duan's mother, however, had doted on him?her fourth and final child?and he used to confide in her about his frustrations over women...
...reasons that I keep a personal library that is so well-documented is because of my great-grandfather, who was a politician in the center-left party in Croatia, and also a great book collector,” he says. “When he died, his quite sizable library was donated to a public school library, but when the Nationalists came to power in Croatia, his collection was purged, along with many other books that were deemed ideologically incorrect. All his manuscripts and memoirs also disappeared without a trace...
Marvin recalled presenting Frondel with a piece of wood streaked with paint, on which she had constructed a molecular model. Frondel, an art collector, had the wood framed and hung it in his home, convincing his wife that it was a work by Jackson Pollock...
...with sadness that i read of the death of Ray Conniff [MILESTONES, Oct. 28], a gifted musician, composer and bandleader. Lesser people leave footprints in the sand; Conniff's, however, are indelible. I first heard a Conniff record in 1957 and since then have been a collector of his recordings--even today. JACK HEYMANN Pretoria...
...addition to his accomplishments in the medical field, Malt was a voracious reader, a connoisseur of wine, food and art, an antique collector and an accomplished photographer, according to his family...