Word: archiviste
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...archivist in East Berlin hurried off to tell his bosses. He had just unearthed a copy of Marlene Dietrich's long-missing birth certificate. Unable to keep the secret...
...rate of an additional file drawer each year for every employee. A home office, top-heavy with accounting-department records, may be cluttered with 35,000 file drawers that cost $50 a year apiece to maintain. To cut down this paper proliferation, a new kind of specialist - the corporate archivist-has turned up. Largest of these archivists is Manhattan's Leahy Archives, which maintains five storage centers throughout the U.S. and serves 400 blue-chip clients who gladly pay to have Leahy consign their unneeded records to the fire...
Professionally Unhappy. Although he reaps a tidy living from surplus record keeping, Washington-born onetime Federal Archivist Leahy is professionally unhappy about the trend to ever more paper work-and somewhat disdainful of the men who create it. "Great men build companies," he says, "and leave the paper shuffling to somebody else. Behind the front line, where the big companies seem to put all their talent, a lot of inefficient people are busy building up their own little empires with unnecessary paper work...
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...