Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flunked Out. In Baltimore, Librarian Ruth Jacobs hunted & hunted for the borrower of Practical Course in Modern Locksmithing, a long-overdue book, found him serving a jail term for burglary...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...
...studied all the time, he has at least kept himself well occupied. Back in 1933, the year he graduated from Boston College with his A.B. in Philosophy, he began the battle of the books in Newton. Public Library. Things are usually uneventful for a small town librarian, but McNiff never gave them time to get that way. Not content to sit in a branch library and philosophize, he took courses at Columbia and in 1940 was awarded a B.S. in library science. In the meantime he had earned a promotion to head of the cataloging department for the whole Newton...
...haven't even read this poem to myself," the former librarian of Congress and assistant secretary of State revealed before the meeting. The actual reading of the untitled piece required 25 minutes, and was followed by shorter works...
MacLeish, has had a varied career as a poet, journalist, and government official. He was Librarian of Congress before the war, and served during the war in the Office of War Information...