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...Paige has come a long way from where he grew up: the hamlet of Monticello, in the piney woods of south-central Mississippi. His dad was a school principal and a barber, his mother a librarian. Paige was the oldest of five children, all of whom have graduate degrees. "My parents told us the solution to the world's problems was education," says Paige...
...acquisition of the volumes by Harvard was greeted with little fanfare in 1950. In his annual report for that year, when Harvard's libraries added a total of 30,000 books to their shelves, University Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf mentioned the Holocaust volumes only in passing...
...husband's life, not in his work. But it's a mistake to think that is all she is. She was in no hurry to get married, and was over 30 when she did. She had established a career, first as a schoolteacher and then as a librarian, that used her abilities and interests to good advantage. And she doesn't fit the cliche of a Texas woman. She doesn't have big hair or wear heavy jewelry. Her style says, "You're not supposed to look at me. You're supposed to listen to what I have...
...died several years later, her siblings had to use intermediaries to get through to her. She called to borrow money about a year ago. Since then, the only sign she's still alive is that no one has heard anything to the contrary. And yet Jonda, 54, a school librarian, says wistfully of Wanda, "There isn't a day that goes by that something doesn't remind...
...career was not the only change in Bush's life. In 1977, he married Laura Welch, a former librarian and teacher who he had known in junior high school...