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...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...
...come in. The Izaak Walton League of Los Angeles had won the Telegraphic Team Championship with 473. Two Westerners-E. S. Neusch-wander of Los Angeles and George Debes of Houston-shooting under better weather conditions, had bettered Watts' 98 by one target each and Thomas Mairs of Utica had tied...
...strike. They demanded the abolition of the classified price system, a blanket rate of 45% of the retail price or approximately 5? a quart. The strikers dumped their milk into troughs and ditches, set up pickets to prevent non-strikers from making deliveries. Boonville, 27 mi. north of Utica, became the focal point of disorder which finally required the armed services of most of the State Police. Some 400 farmers with axes and clubs blocked the passage of two Dairymen's League trucks escorted by a score of police cars. The officers hurled tear-gas bombs, clubbed the farmers...
Last week's analysis by the U. S. Census Bureau of New York State's 1932 vital statistics showed that Utica is the only large city in the State where the birth rate increased last year (up to 17.9 in 1932 from 17.7 in 1931 per 1,000 population). New York City's ratio declined to 15.3 from 16.2 per 1,000, worried realtors and landlords who depend on population increases...