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DIED. Robert W. Henderson, 96, librarian and sports historian who worked at the New York Public Library from its opening in 1911 until 1953, the last ten years as chief of its vast main reading room; in Hartford, Conn. The author of monographs and a book on the history of ball games, Ball, Bat and Bishop (1947), he was an early and authoritative debunker of the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, contending that the origins of the U.S. national sport go back many centuries and that the game had been played in recognizable form since the 18th...
...create jobs in the U.S. Especially in industries facing competition from low-cost imports, these experts say, the availability of immigrant labor can make the difference between survival and bankruptcy. It is claimed that the garment industry in Florida thrives largely because of the influx of Hispanics. Says Warren Henderson, an official with the Florida department of commerce: "Without an abundant pool of willing workers at a relatively low cost, many industries will be forced to shut down entirely or move offshore...
...practice as distasteful and undignified. An A.B.A. Journal study found that in 1984 only 13% of the attorneys surveyed placed ads of any kind; in 1979 the figure was 7%. Ads range in tone from the discreet, almost public-service messages on a Philadelphia classical-music station by Rawle & Henderson, the nation's oldest firm, to the outrageous grabbers of Ken Hur of Madison, Wis., the acknowledged "clown prince of adtorneys." The 300-lb. Hur's most famous TV commercial features him in | bejeweled scuba gear climbing out of a lake and urging those who are "in over their heads...
...increase business in that prestigious and lucrative field. In town just long enough to establish a ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal for some Sisleys and Vuillards belonging to a crusty old patriarch named Loomis Gage. For Gage, read Snopes; Henderson is soon in far beyond his depths of courage or cunning with this moody, devious clan. The old man's fortune comes from some patents he took out on parking-lot design when he noticed cars on the road after World War I. Eventually the courts caught up with...
...masterly style nor his free-floating malice. Also, when Waugh wrote his comic gems in the '20s and '30s, it was still possible to have a truly innocent hero, like Paul Pennyfeather in Decline and Fall or William Boot in Scoop. A dark half-century later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost his job and his women, and his life hangs on his ability to outrun a real attacker. So much, says Boyd, for the insufficiently corrupt...