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Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...
...average of 25 books a day are either lent out to member libraries or used in the Deposit' reading room by people with special passes. Only 402 people have visited the building since...
None of the books and newspapers put in deposit are rebound or processed in any other way. Many of the century-old journals are crumbling dangerously...
...fond hope of the Deposit Library was to build up a collection of its own from duplicates of books which were deposited by more than one member institution. The collection as present consists of "The Book of Business Etiquette," "The American Government Today," and a couple of dictionaries. Rapid growth is not expected in the near future...
This afternoon, solicitors will continue to canvass those who have already signed up. Students may still volunteer by seeing their house captains or by dropping their sign-up blanks in the dining-hall deposit boxes. Volunteering will continue through dinner tonight...