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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving the charging desk and stack entrance from the second to the first floor, merging the Union and Public Catalogues, and improving lighting and elevators are among possible changes. Such alterations would "improve the service and increase the efficiency of Widener," Metcalf stated...
...University printed a large number of suggestions on changes to Widener in its Library Bulletin last January. These ideas were circulated extensively among University faculty members, but Metcalf said the January report offered "too many alternatives" to lead to a final decision...
There was little to be done. Fifty-four of the 55 men, women & children on the DC-4-among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...
...Child of the Mountains. At White Sulphur Springs, where he spent a weekend as guest of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Nehru explained some things he had learned. At a brilliant dinner (among the guests: Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Railroader Robert Young, Publisher Eugene Meyer), Johnson introduced Nehru as "a man of rare truth." Nehru rose to speak, as usual seeming only to be thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley...
Gallagher stressed the necessity for organization in the profession and a spirit of public service among its members. Lawyers, he stated, are engaged in helping the public service and therefore need to have such a spirit...