Word: gills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. BRENDAN GILL, 83, urbane man of letters; in the city he campaigned to preserve, New York. A generalist of wide-ranging talents, Gill began and ended his career at the New Yorker, alternating as a columnist and critic--of architecture and just about everything else. He wrote poetry, novels (The Trouble of One House), plays (La Belle), biographies (of Cole Porter and Frank Lloyd Wright) and even a best seller: Here at "The New Yorker...
...Reported by Sylvester Monroe/Atlanta, Dee Gill and Jill Farrell King/Pearl
Officials of Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS), which took over the sourcebook stockroom this summer from the Science Center management, say the lines have not been longer and claim the forms are necessary to comply with copyright law. According to HPPS Director James Gill, HPPS did extend its hours and hire five temporary employees to accommodate the rush...
...Gill seems committed to improving the situation. "We already have a number of ideas for how to streamline the operation for spring term and will be doing a through post-mortem just as soon as things settle down," he wrote in and- e-mail. Given Gill's enthusiasm, we suggest that HPPS expand its space in the Science Center and hire more people to deal with the long lines...
HPPS clearly has had mixed success thus far. We trust Gill will indeed take steps to shorten sourcebook lines before spring semester rolls around, in the dead of winter...