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Officials of Harvard University's Widener Memorial Library were used to the sallow, bespectacled little man who habitually smoked a corncob pipe. Because he said he was preparing himself to be a professor they let him roam the library as much as he liked. Last week they became sharply conscious of Joel Clifton Williams, 49, of Dedham. Mass. He was under arrest, charged with pilfering 1,804 books worth $15.000 from Widener Library...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
...which started flowing 22,000 bbl. per day. the boom started. Malcolm Crim has made a living for the past 20 years financing the local Negro farmers. In so doing he has acquired much land around Kilgore. Now he sits in the back of his general store, smokes a corncob pipe, parcels out his scattered estate at from $500 to $2,000 an acre although a few months ago $5 would have been plenty. The same scene is repeated in the nearby towns of Tyler and Longview...
Builder Story smoked a corncob pipe, watching the tug Eveleth pick up the schooner to tow her to Gloucester. Five generations of Storys, tall, spare, taciturn, have built fishing boats at the same deep crook in the stream called the Essex River . . . little Chebacco Boats, Heel Tappers and Pinkeys, the bigger boats of the 1850's, the 1890's. Like other Massachusetts builders, he thinks of racing as he sees a boat grow, but builds it for work. No fishing schooner races before it has gone fishing. The twist of the water on the boat's underbody...
Died. Anton A. Tibbe, 70, corncob pipe maker; in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Tibbe made his birthplace, Washington, Mo., the corncob metropolis, when he discovered a method of fireproofing "Missouri Meerschaums...