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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happenstance that gave Indiana its unacademic professor was drug-manufacturing Millionaire Josiah Kirby Lilly Jr.'s decision to give his huge rare-book collection-20,000 first editions, thousands of manuscripts-to the university (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956). The single gift made Indiana an important rare-book center, and the school needed a curator. Lilly recommended Randall, whose 20 years as head of Scribner's rare-book department had made him one of the U.S.'s most knowledgeable authorities-and fastest-moving speculators-in an intense, inbred field. The dealer was hired, and with the backing...
Almost the Best. Last week, by his own exuberant calculation, Librarian Randall had "the finest collection of rare books between the coasts. It isn't as good as the Houghton Library at Harvard, and it's not as good as the Yale collection. We come right after Yale." Says Yale's Rare Book Curator Herman W. Liebert of Randall's library: "First rank-one of the outstanding in the nation...
...acquisition that did much to justify Randall's enthusiasm: the extensive book and manuscript collection of Chicago Printer George Poole. Prize of the Poole library is a Gutenberg Bible that, at the time of the sale, was one of three still in private hands. Randall knew the book well; he was the dealer who sold it to Bibliophile Poole six years ago. When he heard that the collection was to be sold, Randall hurriedly took an option, needed only 15 minutes to persuade President Wells to put up the money (the university will not say how much...
Important as Test Tubes. Waving happily toward the $1,500,000 Lilly Rare Book Library now being built at Indiana, Randall says: "Imagine putting up a building like that and not having a Gutenberg Bible to stick in it." But the spacious new library will be more than a shrine for ancient bits of paper and vellum. Thus far, Indiana's rare books have been useless to all but the few high-ranking scholars who could be allowed access to them. Best feature of the new library: professors, graduate students and undergraduates will be able to use everything...
Ever since Poet Archibald MacLeish's version of the Biblical Book of Job, the verse-play J.B., opened on Broadway last December (TIME, Dec. 22), viewers and reviewers have been choosing up sides to attack and defend MacLeish's Biblicism or lack of it, his humanism or his sentimentality...