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...published biographies of John Singer Sargent and other artists, and thus spent considerable time at the Library of Congress and National Archives. Though security is tight at both places, pilfering can go unnoticed. "We are caught between the need to give researchers access to + documents and security," explains Manuscript Librarian David Wigdor. "It doesn't do any good to have all this material unless people...
Cruse took hostages and held off police for 7 1/2 hours before being captured. His toll: six dead, including two policemen, and 14 injured. The gunman, a retired librarian who is married to an ailing wife, had a reputation as a neighborhood crank. To one of his hostages, he explained his mindless massacre: "If I wasn't drunk, it wouldn't have happened...
...Boorstin, the keen-minded Librarian of Congress who sits atop Capitol Hill and watches the drama below, talks about the "cleansing effect of Washington." The old city, given enough time, knocks common sense into cockeyed theories, rounds the corners of sharp practices, and finally forces almost every leader who is successful to heed the sound counsel of history...
...computer catalog system will allow users to locate books by author, book title, subject, key words and call numbers through 30 public computer terminals, said MIT Systems Librarian Amira Aaron. The on-line system should be operating by June, she said...
...stagecraft and star quality. Shopping or seeing a movie, she can easily go unrecognized. Out of the limelight, says Bonnie Bruckheimer-Martell, Bette's friend and partner in All Girl Productions, "she's basically shy. She'd never think of wearing anything low cut. She calls herself a librarian." No dust on this star's bookshelves. "She's a cleanliness freak," notes Bruckheimer-Martell. "She calls herself Harriet Craig, after the Joan Crawford character who was constantly cleaning." Manilow recalls Bette's perfectionism, "from neatness at home to the 95th take of a song. Once we were walking...