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...Dorothy Christie parlayed a $25 secondhand evening wrap into a $22,500 fighter plane is one of the breeziest inspirations of World War II. The wrap, which, along with other finery and furbelows, Mrs. Christie had forsworn for the war's duration, was sold to an American friend last October. The $25 she got went to print cards that said: "Is your name Dorothy? If so, rally around and help buy a Spitfire for Britain."* The cards, in turn, went to every Dorothy in the Dominion that she and her friends could think...
...Beginning. As one of seven children of a Spokane, Wash, accountant, Bing's earliest leanings were towards having fun. Pleasant and easygoing, he liked to swim at Mission Park on hot days or whack around the Downriver golf course with his rusty, secondhand clubs. His vague goal was the law, which he leisurely studied at nearby Gonzaga University...
...Jellifies had little money, used in genuity instead. When famed Negro Actor Charles Gilpin gave them $50 to start a Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving...
Last week the remnants of Arthur Neville Chamberlain's worldly possessions went on the auction block at his home in Birmingham. Already distributed to relatives and friends were his umbrella, his fishing tackle, butterfly collections, other valuables. With little enthusiasm, women souvenir hunters and secondhand dealers bid for the rest, a motley collection of old juvenile books, pottery, bedraggled furniture. High bid of ?55 was for a piano. A settee from the Chamberlain drawing room went for ?7; an oak bureau with graduated drawers, for "accommodating birds' eggs," for 15 shillings...
...another young man "who was invariably spurned by the girls, not because he smelt at all bad, but because he happened to be as ugly as a monkey." Such Collier characters naturally gravitate into the company of demons, nymphs and other undesirable elements. They have only to approach a secondhand shop, zoo, greenhouse or midnight bridge when the fictitious rational world dissolves and Author Collier is at home among the fierce realities of the occult. Even a huge department store, in two tales, becomes a faery land forlorn...