[78-L] Man who lived modestly leaves millions .. & Edison machine

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This just in at msn.com: BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A Vermont man who sometimes held his coat together with safety pins and had a long-time habit of foraging for firewood also had a hidden talent for picking stocks — a talent that became public after his death when he bequeathed $6 million to his local library and hospital.The investments made by Ronald Read, a former gas station employee and janitor who died last June at age 92, "grew substantially" over the years, said his attorney Laurie Rowell.Read, who was known for his flannel jacket and baseball cap, gave no hint of the size of his fortune."He was unbelievably frugal," Rowell said Wednesday. When Read visited her office, "sometimes he parked so far away so he wouldn't have to pay the meter."The bequest of $4.8 million to the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and $1.2 million to the town's Brooks Memorial Library were the largest each institution has ever received. Read also made a number of smaller bequests."It's pretty incredible. This is not something that happens on a regular basis," said the hospital's development director, Gina Pattison.In addition to cash, he had an antique Edison phonograph with dozens of recording drums that he left to the Dummerston Historical Society, Rowell said."It's really a beautiful machine," said Historical Society president Muriel Taylor.Read was born in Dummerston in 1921. He was the first in his family to graduate from high school, walking and hitchhiking about four miles each way from his home to the high school in Brattleboro. After military service during World War II, he returned to Brattleboro where he worked at a service station for 25 years then worked for 17 years as a janitor at the local J.C. Penney.In 1960 he married a woman he met at the service station. She died in 1970.Stepson Phillip Brown, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, told the Brattleboro Reformer he visited Read every few months, more often as Read's health declined. The only indication Brown had of Read's investments was his regular reading of the Wall Street Journal."I was tremendously surprised," Brown said of Read's hidden wealth. "He was a hard worker, but I don't think anybody had an idea that he was a multi-millionaire."

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:34:24 +0100
From: Ate van Delden <ate.vandelden at worldonline.nl.invalid>
Subject: [78-L] Record Research Bulletins and Supplements
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During the Fifties and Sixties Record Research sometimes issued bulletins (RRB) between its regular issues. They contain major discographical data and therefore I would like to complete my set. I have issues 3 through 12.
I can help others with completing theirs.

Then Record Research also issued Supplements (RRS). I have issues 20 through 24 of these. 
I belive that RRS 42 was issued as late as 1992.

RRB and RRS may have overlapped.

Can anyone help?



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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:33:09 +0000
From: Cheniston Roland <violinland at talktalk.net.invalid>
Subject: [78-L] Record Magazine
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I found this link in the Internet Archive I hope this is the magazibe to 
which tou refere

https://archive.org/details/RecordResearchMagazine


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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:47:09 +0000
From: Cheniston Roland <violinland at talktalk.net.invalid>
Subject: [78-L] More Record Research
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Also regarding Record Research the following later issues 
https://archive.org/search.php?query=record%20collector%20magazine


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