Word: archivist
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...frozen-custard stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...
...began to play guitar, imitating the choked "bottleneck" style of two older, semilegendary primitives, Eddie "Son" House and Robert Johnson. Around 1941, Folk Archivist Alan Lomax came to Clarksdale and recorded Muddy for the Library of Congress. That helped convince Muddy that he might be able to make it up North, where the factories had work, and a job was not called off if it rained. As Muddy once put it: "I came up to Chicago on a train. Alone. With a suitcase, one suit of clothes and a guitar...
...Justice Department, however, has responded to Skolnick's suit with a "No comment," and National Archivist Marion Johnson claims that he has "seen no evidence in the records connecting Vallee to an assassination attempt." The Government has 60 days in which to answer the suit...
Clifford K. Shipton, archivist and bibliographer, who once described himself as "a climber of family trees," is retiring as Custodian of the Harvard University Archives, a position he has held since...
Although the AFI represents a rare example of America rising to meet a crisis before it reaches insane proportions, much of an archivist's dream can no longer be made into reality: many films are permanently lost, and Hollywood's history includes stories that fill a modern-day film anthropologist with disgust. Directors rarely had the right to edit their own films, and it became common practice for studios to re-cut and mangle films they thought potentially commercial...