Word: librarians
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Died. Giovanni Cardinal Mercati, 90, Vatican librarian and archivist of the Roman Catholic Church, disciplined scholar ("I'm always ready to learn") who wrote some 400 arcane works, was created a cardinal by his friend, the late Pope Pius XI; of a heart attack; in Vatican City. Surviving in the 70-member College of Cardinals...
...Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find that [you] could not come up with the words of this song which I have heard sung since I was a boy!" Already fearful of budget slashes, Mumford unhappily allowed: "I cannot account for its absence." Hearts, heavy over their...
...roster appear such well known names as Rudolph Elie, Boston Herald columnist, William Jackson, librarian of Houghton, and Professor Norbert Weiner of M.I.T. Honorary members include mystery writer Rex Stout, and the late Christopher Morley...
Philip J. McNiff, Associate Librarian for Resources and Acquisitions, said that the Beal collection would "help round out an important segment of the theater collection...
...married younger (median age: 20), and married working girls quit earlier to have more babies. Moreover, secretarial work no longer has the prestige it had in the 1930s. A woman may now become an engineer, have more fun as an airline stewardess, earn more as a buyer, a librarian, a copywriter. Even some waitresses make $150 a week, double the average secretary's salary with half the strain...