Word: archivist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What sets Levron's work apart is that he approaches Pompadour not merely as an apologist and admirer but as an archivist-he is curator of all the his toric papers at Versailles. Delving into little-known notebooks and letters, he supports his assessments of her character with elaborate documentation of her daily housekeeping and the worthy causes she supported...
...remembers herself as unhappy, unloved, and in rebellion against her mother, a celebrated local beauty who kept the Hanoi equivalent of a salon. "If you are unjust," the young girl told her fiercely, "I will ignore you." When Beautiful Spring was 16, she met Ngo Dinh Nhu, chief archivist at the Indo-China Library and an admirer of her mother's. To Beautiful Spring's distress, Mother forced her to address herself to Nhu as "your little niece." Nhu lent his little niece books, helped her with her Latin lessons. Constantly in her mother's shadow, Mme. Nhu wanted...
Wiggins said that University officials expect the President to make a final decision on his site "in the very near future." Once the site has been chosen, much of the actual planning for the library will be done by Wayne Grover, the archivist of the United States. Grover assumes that the entire facility will require several acres...
...Winston chose his official biographer: rambunctious Randolph, 51, his son, the journalist. The prodigious task calls for five volumes, or some 1,250,000 words. Four researchers, two secretaries and an archivist are already closeted in the Churchill mansion in Suffolk, sifting through 300,000 unpublished papers. And Randolph is still calling for more from "anyone who can send letters from or about Sir Winston or any firsthand recollections...
...Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another embassy staffer, Richard Carl Jacob, 26, who, though only a secretary-archivist, was in reality, claimed Pravda, a graduate of a special U.S. spy school. The paper even carried "authentic"' photographs of the "spies at work...