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Gridley looked up and realized that his time was almost up. He walked across the hall and asked the attendant to buzz him into the reading room. The old man pushed a button, electric locks disengaged, and Gridley walked on through, past the austere scholars and the academic secretaries clicking away at their silent typewriters. He waited for another buzz and then took the bridge to Widener, re-entering the stacks at Level 1, where he took the elevator up beyond Level 6, beyond the Church History section and Migne's Patrologia Latina with its 200-odd volumes, finally exiting...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: A Day at the Library | 1/15/1963 | See Source »

Queen with a reputation for zoom in sports cars back home, was having his woes with the lawnmower-engined buzz bombs. In a regimental race, his kart had no go, and though he leaned professionally into the turns, he wound up, according to one polite observer, "among the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 14, 1962 | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...Gilbert Co., whose long-beloved Erector Set has been updated to include rocket gantries and moon vehicles, has a flying model plane, the Skyflash. Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Charles "Buzz" Gagnebin '63, varsity football manager and organizer of tonight's festivities, said yesterday that this will be "one of the best rallies in history." Gagnebin noted that "spirit is high of The Game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hundreds Expected at Rally Tonight; Yovicsin, Varsity to Join Festivities | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Swept in by the Nelson victory was Democratic Attorney General John W. Reynolds, 41, a liberal running for Governor against Milwaukee Businessman Philip G. ("Buzz") Kuehn, 42, a conservative who just could not bring himself to disavow the backing of the John Birch Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wisconsin: Right on Schedule | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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