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...know Sidney Verba: University Professor, University Librarian, and former assistant dean of the College. Well, now there is a new title for Sid Verba: one of the "Tweediest Professors" in the nation. According to M Magazine, Verba is among eight scholars who clothing most typifies the term "Tweedy...
DIED. Robert W. Henderson, 96, librarian and sports historian who worked at the New York Public Library from its opening in 1911 until 1953, the last ten years as chief of its vast main reading room; in Hartford, Conn. The author of monographs and a book on the history of ball games, Ball, Bat and Bishop (1947), he was an early and authoritative debunker of the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, contending that the origins of the U.S. national sport go back many centuries and that the game had been played in recognizable form since the 18th...
Professor of English and Comparative Literature Walter J. Kaiser may be known about Harvard for his expensive suits, but thanks to M Magazine, University Librarian Sidney Verba '53 has gained nationwide fame for his inexpensive jackets...
...when William Buckley, 57, political officer of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, was abducted from his car. In May 1984 the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 61, a Presbyterian minister who had lived in Beirut for more than 30 years, was seized. Six months later, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, was reported missing...
...Press Beirut bureau chief; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic priest; and U.S. Embassy Official William Buckley, 56, who was abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, has been missing since December, but no mention of him was made last week. The two Frenchmen in the photographic lineup were Diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton...