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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lilly Jr.'s decision to give his huge rare-book collection-20,000 first editions, thousands of manuscripts-to the university (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956). The single gift made Indiana an important rare-book center, and the school needed a curator. Lilly recommended Randall, whose 20 years as head of Scribner's rare-book department had made him one of the U.S.'s most knowledgeable authorities-and fastest-moving speculators-in an intense, inbred field. The dealer was hired, and with the backing of Indiana's President Herman Wells (whom Randall was breezily calling "Herman" within...
...Wishie Weasel Head got mixed up with an old lady at Heart Butte," read the item in the weekly Browning, Mont. Glacier Reporter (circ. 1,200). "So the old woman pick up a jug of Gallo and whack him over the head and was soaked in wine. He was hospitalized for several days so don't bother an old lady...
...editor of the brand-new Stockholm daily newspaper asked his boss just one question as the first day's issues hit the streets in 1944: "How long before I have to start making money?" Said volatile Tor Bonnier, head of Sweden's biggest publishing house (books, magazines, the Stockholm morning Dagens Nyheter): "It's a question of how long my nerves hold out." Replied Editor Carl-Adam Nycop: "In that case, I'll have to hurry...
...sign on the office door read DON'T KNOCK. COME IN. Inside, a small, spectacled man leaned back in his chair and surveyed the walls, decorated heavily with rowing memorabilia. "I am satisfied to retire," said Carroll Ebright, 65, the University of California's head rowing coach since 1924. "I have seen our crews reach worldwide acclaim; I have been down, and now I see us coming back again. It is time for a younger...
...What do you hope to achieve with such colossal stupidity?" his boss roars, and Hope meekly replies: "I wanted to become your assistant." Instead, he is ordered to head west, find Jesse James and keep him alive at all costs. "B-b-but." Hope stammers, "I'm liable to get killed." To which the boss bellows a retort that is just as funny now as it was when Aristophanes was scratching the wax: "Stop trying to cheer...