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...Manhattan Lawyer Alfred H. Holbrook seemed an incurable collector of paintings. He was, he says, "like a toper who took one swig at the fount of art appreciation and went on a 40-year binge." Between sprees, Collector Holbrook wanted to find out why the habit had such a hold on him. This year he enrolled as an art student at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his classmates were 61 coeds. Last week he still had no logical explanation of his craving for art. But grateful Student Holbrook had presented his entire $175,000 collection, acquired over four...
Collector Holbrook took a good, long look at the show and was seized with a new urge which promised to be even less curable than his old habit of collecting: he sat down and dashed off a painting...
...Shakespeare Club be of Cambridge, whose delight, in "Much Ado," qun play, was notably above the response, even of those speculator who plumed themselves on having seen this or that star and a priori judged the amateurs by that unfair standard. Yours very truly, William C. Holbrook...
...Boston Police Force was needed to retrieve Harold Holbrook's hat from a keepsake-collecting girl in outer Boston. It seems she had passed it on to a sailor friend who had consequently broken off relations. With a frantic appeal to justice and some maneuvering, the police extracted the hat and the incident was kept out of the papers...
...hits of the evening was Lient. E. O. Elmer. His performance was rather complicated and somewhat unexplainable, but if you should perchance see him in the near future ask him to give you the story on Archibald S. Holbrook--really something. Also introduced was Lt. (jg) H. M. Hansen who gave an interesting talk to the amusement of all present--And so a good time...