Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respects of the President, the Secretary of State, the Lend-Lease Administrator, the Librarian of Congress and the British Ambassador were paid last week to a radio reporter. At a banquet given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria, some 1,100 persons of note twice rose to their feet in tribute to him. CBS's Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow, back from three years in grim London, was clearly given to understand that he had deserved well of the Republic...
...last week's ornamental banquet, presided over by CBS's silver-haired Standby Elmer Davis, two debts were implicitly acknowledged. One acknowledgment came from the Administration to the men who had made the urgent plight of Britain palpable to millions. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish to Ed Murrow: "You have destroyed . . . the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not realty done...
...died, the Mayo brothers gave the University of Minnesota permission to publish a biography of themselves and their pioneer father, Dr. William Worrall Mayo, who died in 1911, at 91. The Doctors Mayo, published this week by the University of Minnesota Press ($3.75), is authored by a onetime Minnesota librarian, Helen Berniece Clapesattle. Written with Victorian reverence, the book is a jumbled mass of facts and recollections about the growth of a great medical institution, a dull book full of interesting facts...
Asked why Yale was given the manuscript of the book instead of Harvard, Marquand explained, "Yale asked for it first. I didn't realize that Widener would want it." He said that he is now arranging with Head Librarian Keyes Metcalf to give his other manuscripts and family letters to the College...
...building, now under construction, is located on Western Avenue back of the Busness School, and should be finished sometime this winter, according to Keyes D. Metcalf, librarian of Harvard College...