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Suijk (pronounced Sowk) claims that he was given the five pages of unpublished entries by Anne's father shortly before Otto Frank died in 1980. The only member of the family to survive the war, Otto was both custodian of his daughter's legacy, and its expurgator. The first edition of the diary was published in 1947 without including embarrassing family passages...
Strange to say about a man who manages to become President of the United States, but Bill Clinton has been an offhand custodian of his fate. Again and again, he drifts into crisis, blames others, wakes up at last and then scrambles to his own defense, a defense in which, sure enough, he's sinuous, subtle and dazzling. This is what happened in 1980, when he lost his first bid for re-election as Arkansas Governor, then struggled his way back to office two years later. It happened again in the presidential election of 1992, when his past kept getting...
...very focused, from early life on. She would set her mind on something and accomplish it," says William E. King, who went to high school with Dole and now is custodian of her college memories as Duke University Archivist. "You expected her accomplishments and you weren't surprised by them...
...their late father's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, of breaching their trust by misappropriating items that belong to history or to them -- and are asking that the items be returned. "It is now clear that Mrs. Lincoln took advantage of her position as our father's secretary, and later as custodian of objects intended for the Library, by taking home with her countless documents and objects that had belonged to our father and to the United States Government," the Kennedys said. Lincoln, who died in 1995, left the collection to her friend Robert White, who is selling a portion...
...Allred argued that the criterion for allowing the child's custodian to move should not be whether it is absolutely necessary, but whether it is good for the child...