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...adds that the children rigorously culled their mother's mountains of things to select important and appropriate items for the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston (which will also receive most of the $2.5 million from the catalog sales). In April 1995, Caroline and John donated a huge trove of items to the library, including Jackie's wedding dress, 38,000 pages of documents, 4,500 photographs and 200 artifacts and works...
Smarmy politicians, operating behind the aegis of public goods provision, have turned gambling, which was, or even still is, a socially unacceptable pursuit, into a fiscal and political treasure-trove. The bottom line is, if gambling is immoral, the government should get out, and if it is not immoral, it should open...
Managing what he calls "this rich trove of cyberspace resources" is second nature for Ramo, a journalist and cybersurfer who put Newsweek on Prodigy 18 months ago. Josh, it should be noted, is something of a prodigy himself. At 27, he is the youngest senior editor in TIME's history...
...gift from an Englishman who never set foot in the States. James Smithson was a noted mineralogist who, stung by the Royal Society's refusal to publish his scientific papers, bequeathed the U.S. government £100,000 to build "an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge." Today its trove ranges from the Wright brothers' airplane to a prototype of the Apple personal computer...
...began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...