Melbourne collected Wooden spoons in 1974 and 1978.

Popes, kings and artists, Albrecht Durer included, collected spoons, forks, saltcellars, dagger handles and hunting horns of the highly sophisticated type assembled in "Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory," at the Center for African Art, 54 East 68th Street.

He collected spoons over fifty years from markets all over the world.

I race around picking underwear and socks from the floor, collecting spoons and coffee cups from various horizontal surfaces and chucking them into the kitchen sink.

Patience thrust back her sleeves once more and crossed to the dresser, collecting cups and saucers, spoons, the tea caddy and a tray with the ease of long custom.

A week later, DSW suggested collecting spoons because, "Right now spoons are everywhere but after January 1, who knows?"

In her later years she took up painting, collected commemorative spoons, and she had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Dorian; she had a love for animals and when she was able she would make contributions to the Doris Day Animal League; Day was one of Kennedy's Hollywood friends.

Collecting the plates and spoons he moved away.

The focal point of the blast appeared to have been where the soldiers collected plastic forks and spoons at a long serving line, where a four-inch deep crater, about a foot wide, was blown into the thick concrete floor, said Capt. Pat Roddy, who arrived at the dining tent minutes after the blast.