Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night and sleeping in the school library between classes. An unselfconscious individual, untroubled by his missing leg, Captain Lawson had been trying to get his story on paper, hammering away doggedly but ineffectually. He needed to get his story told. His wife (he had married the Junior College librarian) had just borne him a daughter. When Considine appeared, Captain Lawson poured out in speech the words he could not get on to paper...
Tomorrow a second meeting will be held in New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock where courses and study cards will be discussed. Keyes DeW. Metcalf, University Librarian, A. Chester Hanford, dean of the College, and Dean Leighton will speak...
...last February, Assistant Librarian of Motion Pictures Howard Lamarr Walls peered into an air-conditioned vault deep in the annex to Capitol Hill's most operatic piece of architecture. He saw thousands of rolls of paper: almost the entire output of U.S. motion-picture companies from 1897 to 1912. (Before 1912, he explains, motion pictures could not be copyrighted as such, and producers got around this by copyrighting their films, printed on paper, as photographs...
...priced from 10? to 40?). Bomber Command, Coastal Command and Battle of Britain alone have had total world sales of 12,000,000 copies-twice the last official sales total of Mein Kampf. Their anonymous author (revealed as Hilary St. George Saunders, the House of Commons assistant librarian) now turns his attention to the Commandos. Combined Operations, like its predecessors, has very lively passages indeed...
...Adams papers are owned and managed by the Adams Manuscript Trust. MacLeish negotiated for the loan of the Declaration through the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made one, no story...