- Once owned the world's largest collection of paper airplanes, which he donated to the Smithsonian Air-Space Museum
- Compiled six-album set "The Anthology of American Folk Music" for Folkways Records, drawing largely on his own record collection, most of which he later sold to the New York Public Library.
- Was never sure whether his father was his mother's husband or if it was Aleister Crowley, the famous satanist, whom his mother had been seeing.
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