Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Librarian Frances Tomlinson Gardner, of the University of California Medical School, says it is doubtful that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery...
Lamont will unbar its doors to women, but only at specified times, Head Librarian Philip J. McNiff announced yesterday. Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. will be designated visiting hours for female guests of University students and faculty members...
...newly elected officers of the Harvard Philatelic Society are Alan H. Master '52, president; Thomas J. Wilson '51, vice-president; Vasco McCoy '49, treasurer; Clarke Robinson '51, secretary; and Walter P. Burrier, Jr. '50, librarian...
...more conscious of the inadequacies of their own library and more bitter about them. Some of these will be alleviated in the rebuilding plans which President Jordan will announce next week. Improvements in lighting, ventilation and efficiency will probably be included. But, according to the statements of the head librarian other shortcomings may be ignored...
Even so, the crowd was made up largely of women, Librarian Phillip J. McNiff disclosed last night. And the features of the now building which attracted most praise were the soothing color schemes and the arty furniture arrangements...