At last nights stamp club i picked up a copy of Linns "most influential philatelists". I remember Ken Martin from 30 years ago at the State College site when he was a kid running trays of circuit books out to the customers in the Sales Division...i told him "you don't have to run for me" but he still has that enthusiasm. The ones i found most interesting were "the dealers" , most of these men were highly educated doctors, lawyers, engineers to begin with and decided those professions were not for them and became stamp dealers. I guess we do not hear about the ones that tried to make it and failed. I had to laugh at the article on David Feldman and how he got to auction off the Mauritius "Bordeaux" cover that belonged to Hiroyuki Kanai for $ 4 million. Stamp people are far from dull.