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...most avid collectors; after long illness; in Philadelphia. Called the "Napoleon of Books" by rival bibliophiles who often watched him skim off the cream of the rare-books sales, "Rosy" owned, at one time or another, a $25,000,000 collection of rare volumes. Among them: eight Gutenberg Bibles, between 30 and 40 first folios of Shakespeare, and the famous Bay Psalm Book, first book printed (1640) in Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable" $151,000. While still a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosy made his first big find in a Philadelphia auction...
...human heart," he said to a friend. "I am convinced that my mission on earth is accomplished." Last week, the mission he performed was put into words by Helen Keller. "We, the blind," said she at the Sorbonne ceremony, "are as indebted to Louis Braille as mankind is to Gutenberg . . . The raised letters under our fingers are precious pods from which has sprouted our intellectual wealth. Without a dot system, what a chaotic, inadequate affair our education would...
Last week at Princeton University's Firestone Library, visitors were examining a volume of Buddhist scriptures printed by the monks of a Chinese monastery in 1234, two centuries before Johann Gutenberg closed his press on the first Gutenberg Bible. The rare book was part of Princeton's first public display of the Gest Oriental Library, a fabulous collection of more than 130,000 Chinese books and manuscripts spanning eleven centuries...
...begun, naturally, with Old Masters, but the supply was strictly limited. So he went ahead with Gutenberg Bibles, racehorses, Stradivariuses, snuffboxes, stained glass, milk glass, Waterford glass and Venetian glass. He owned four spas, half of Chicago, an inland sea and a buffer state. The trouble was that Gordon's collecting interests quickly flagged, and whenever they did, his personality turned sour. At such times, he would stay slugabed all day, spitefully jolting the market by dumping or buying, and making life difficult for his wife Isabel...
From that desk-sergeant's point of view, the CRIMSON coverage of Cambridge police activities is the best joke since Gutenberg. To those whose cars have been tagged, ticketed, or towed in the past two months, your parking tips are the saddest transportation event since brachiation went out. W.E.R. LaFarge...