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Now a business consultant, the former actor who appeared in Westerns during Hollywood’s Golden Age had never collected anything in his life — until he went...
Sidney Marantz boasts a collection of over 12,000 Olympic pins. (Courtesy of Marantz/ via JTA) JTA — Sid Marantz loves tradition so much that he spent 20 years as a board member of his family’s Los Angeles synagogue. So it’s a big deal that he isn’t in Tokyo this week for the start of the Olympics, the first Summer Games he’s missed since 1984. Marantz usually attends for three weeks: the 16 days of the games — with a few more days tacked onto the beginning and end to trade Olympic pins. The 76-year-old retired businessman and Jewish philanthropist is one of the world’s most com...