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Symphony tonight will include Beethoven's Overture to Collin's drama "Coriolan," dances from "The Three Cornered Hat" by Falla (not to be confused with ecstatic Eleanor's Fellas), Dvorak's violin concerto in B minor, and Bohuslav Martinu's Sixth Symphony, which gets its premiere. Leonard Rose, soloist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/17/1956 | See Source »

...SAMUEL COLLIN MACDONALD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: Cost of a View | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...heard Sherman tell his caretaker: "Cut the trees. To hell with them. Let 'em sue. All they can get is the cost of the trees and we'll have a clear view of the ocean." Elliott appraised his trees at only $2,800, and Mrs. Collin figured hers were worth $1,350. But the jury was outraged. It increased the damages to $5,000 apiece, then found that the damage had been done on "improved property," which in Maine automatically trebles the damages. Unless he appeals successfully, New York's Sherman faces a resounding $30,000 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: Cost of a View | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons. All of the pilots were combat veterans, all but eight were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: First in War . . . | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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