Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they vomit...
...literary appreciations and a rotogravure section. The rotogravure section contains photographs of treasures culled from the author's scrapbook--holographs, playbills, autographed pictures, manuscripts. The best part of the book is the chapter titled "Briefcase", containing essays on literary subjects, beginning with a delightful appreciation of Louis Hind's "100 Second Best Poems" and ending with an almost moving discussion of Remarque's "The Road Back". The worst part of the book is that headed "Three Newsreels", in which the contents of three issues of a New York newspaper are listed with pitiless cruelty (to the reader), unrelieved through twenty...
...laymen the world's best-known stamp collectors are George V of Britain and Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U. S. Philatelists know that the world's greatest stamp collectors were Count Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari of Austria and Arthur Hind of Utica, N. Y. who bought the cream of the Ferrari collection on the Count's death and who died last March at the age of 77 (TIME, March 13). Last week the most important philatelic event since the Ferrari sale of 1922 occurred in Manhattan when the first part of the great Hind collection...
...Arthur Hind emigrated to the U. S. 43 years ago, established a plush mill in Utica which greatly prospered. Personal profits went into stamps. His first big purchase was a lot of 12,000 for which he paid $3,000. After weeding out forgeries, worthless stamps, repaired and damaged stamps, 500 were left. The faster plush rolled out of his mills the faster stamps snowed into his albums. Lord Duveen managed to sell him his own stamp collection for $170,000. In 1922 Arthur Hind made world headlines by paying the highest price ever for a postage stamp...
...York, then to Philadelphia where Eugene Klein picked it up for $15,000. He in turn sold it to the late Hetty Green's son for $20,000; Col. Green kept 20 and returned the rest back to Klein who peddled them to other collectors. Last week Collector Hind's block of four fetched...