Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
...Archibald MacLeish, poet and ex-Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
...Although no solution of library crowding in the Hour exam weeks ahead was promised, the Librarian of Harvard College assured the Council that 300 extra chairs were being placed in the Union reading rooms...
...Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life, the day she first drops inhibition and learns sex exists outside of Boccaccio...