Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write-up in next year's catalog states, "the course will progress from an investigation of pure drama to an investigation of the uses of drama in lyric poetry, opera, the novel, the motion picture, and television...
...this Joke Generation subsist? How was its Life Source of gadgets purveyed? By the J and S book. The J and S Book, as it was affectionately known, was the catalog of the Johnson and Smith Company of Racine, Wisconsin. The Company ran intoi trouble in the frigid climate of the early 'Thirties, when people decided practical jokes were impractical. But there yet remain copies of the catalog, virtually unchanged since the pre-World War I days, which are now of unestimable value...
Even now, the GSAS catalog recommends that the qualifying examinations be completed after three years, and the Faculty in the spring of 1957 defined the Ph.D. "less in terms of formal courses" than it had previously done. Anticipating the CEP plan of last spring, the Faculty voted an increase in independent work: only eight half courses in the first two years were required rather than sixteen...
...Committee Chairman Frank M. Folson, who took over as chairman of the Kress executive committee after the foundation forced a change in Kress policy in an effort to halt slipping sales. Born in Auburn, Me., Cobb attended the University of Maine ('35), worked for Montgomery Ward as regional catalog-order manager before joining W. T. Grant, where he rose to become store planning director. He joined Zeller's Ltd. as executive vice president in 1955, became president in September of the same year. As Kress president, his job will be to open more stores, build up sales...
...Schwann Catalog grows at the rate of as many as 400 listings a month. If the growth keeps on accelerating, the brass-eared listener will soon have to give up his sleep to get to the bottom of the pile...