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...nabbed the library's biggest book thief--doesn't depend on prayer to uncover missing or stolen books. As a matter of fact, he relies mainly on his 46 years of experience working in University libraries. He started in the old Gore Library as a coat checker, moved into the newly-built Widener as a book checker, became shortly thereafter Superintendent of the stacks in Widener, and in 1948 was appointed an officer of the University with the title of "The Superintendent of the Stack and the Harry Elkins Memorial Building of the Harvard College Library." "My background really started...
...Guests must identify themselves by showing their Bursar's card or Dining Hall cards at the checker's desk in the dining hall in which a meal is taken...
...golden '20s, no one seemed to have a more golden touch than a young man named Errett Lobban Cord. By the time he was 39, the ex-Los Angeles used-car salesman had built an empire that ranged through motors (Auburn, Checker Cab, Cord), ships (New York Shipbuilding), aircraft (Stinson, Lycoming engines) and airlines (American Airways). But in 1937, Cord came a cropper. The SEC charged him with manipulating the stock of Checker Cab and Auburn, and he sold most of his empire to a group headed by Banker Victor Emanuel...
Summer students have gobbled up the odd jobs, whereas regular College students have seized most of the openings listed in the book labeled: "Full-time and Regular Part-time--Catch As Catch Can." The office has assigned drivers to the Checker Cab Company, bartenders to the Hotel Commander, and a man "to sleep on a boat...
...checker's question-and the stack of fan letters that came later -brought TIME Correspondent Frank McNaughton some surprising news. To millions of televiewers in 26 U.S. cities he had become something of a star. To TIME editors he was a man doing before cameras just what he had been doing with a typewriter for 24 years: a bang-up reporting...