Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court last week was scolded by one of its own members: peppery Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. The occasion: a 6-2 Supreme Court decision to the effect that a North Dakota farmer may have died by accident rather than suicide, and that his widow could therefore collect on a double-indemnity insurance clause...
...Student Council-sponsored "Operation Booklift" expects to collect "several thousand" books of all kinds for use in Nigeria and Pakistan, according to co-chairman Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61 announced yesterday...
...Henley depends upon the ability to raise an estimated $10,000 necessary for each crew. The Friends of Harvard Rowing contributed one-half of the expenses last year and is expected to provide a substantial portion of the expenses again. The lightweight crew has already began trying to collect from oarsmen and friends the share it must raise to make the trip to England...
...Louis dropped a casual line to Musicomedy Authors Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to inform them that an unauthorized version of their long-running My Fair Lady, its book translated by Louis, will be staged in two Russian cities next season. Despite the fact that they stand to collect no royalties on the Russian production, Louis brassily requested Lerner and Loewe to forward a complete orchestral score for the hit. So incensed that they could have danced all night with rage, the pair promptly appealed to the State Department, the Soviet Embassy in Washington and the Soviet U.N. mission...
Among these was Private Stephen Prosniak, a kleptomaniac who was suffered by his comrades only on the promise that he would give back on Saturday everything he had stolen during the week. Prosniak became a bona fide hero, killing dozens of Japanese-so he could collect souvenirs from their bodies. Then there was Lieut. Peter Claver Kenton, a delightful dipsomaniac with a habit of absenting himself from duty to work part time as a bowling-alley pin boy and as a desk clerk in a whorehouse...