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Established in 1923 with little more than a Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary and a world almanac, the Time Inc. library has grown into the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., with 25 professional librarians and 63 clerks, newspaper markers and indexers. Last year it processed 150,576 queries from the company's various operations, 58,839 from TIME alone. The library contains half a million information folders on people, companies and news topics, 87,000 books and government publications and a running collection of several hundred periodicals. About the only thing it lacks is space...
...work was constantly, and unavoidably, compared to an artistic giant who towered above her in his achievement. Mochon, in her catalog accompanying the exhibition (worth the price), describes the role of the women in the Blaue Reiter circle as definitely secondary: in the discussion and planning sessions for an almanac to present the viewpoint of the group, the men "formulated and dictated the ideas for the almanac, and the women dutifully transcribed them...
DIED. Francis Robinson, 70, nationally known voice of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera as its press spokesman, radio and TV guide and all-round almanac of operatic history for three decades; of cancer; in New York City. Robinson, who joined the Met as tour manager in 1948, when the company did its traveling in two trains with 18 sleeping and 22 baggage cars, once confessed a desire to be onstage. But in his managerial role, he said, "I came as close as I could without singing, and I've probably lasted longer...
Even the Old Farmer's Almanac could not have foreseen it all. Barely a trace of snow in New England, yet mounds of it down in Dixie. Norfolk, Va., accumulated twice as much snow as Burlington, Vt, or Portland, Me., and about one-third more than Chicago. Florida too was taking its licks. In early March, temperatures plummeted below freezing, putting a squeeze on the citrus crop, and tornadoes cut across the southeast part of the state. Up North folks were trying to decide whether to pack away mufflers and mittens after spring-in-December readings...
What is New Hampshire? An almanac calls it a "relatively small but well wooded and scenic state of mountains, lakes and rapid rivers that provide a good water supply and large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state...