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Back in 1916, while rumaging through an old New England mill garret, Baker Library's librarian Professor Arthur H. Cole came up with bales of ancient financial history which started off one of the country's largest collections of business manuscripts. When George F. Baker presented the Business School with a library eleven years ago, the Manuscript Division was immediately set up to take care of Cole's find (the records of a colonial textile mill) and the other collections that Widener had already accumulated...
...book. In 1949, he was twice visited by a man he knew as an "associate of Cominform agents," and twice warned against praising Tito. In 1950, four men in an automobile with Michigan license plates came to the farmhouse while Adamic was alone and demanded to see the manuscript. A laundry truck providentially drove up and they departed. Adamic kept the incident a secret from his wife, said Smole, but immediately packed up and moved surreptitiously to Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...sharply observant eye once again brought history to life. It was finicky about detail, looking over the shoulder of Czechoslovakia's Gertruda Sekaninova as she jotted down notes; absorbedly watching Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida nimbly unroll the manuscript of his speech with one hand and roll it up with the other; turning away from a repetitious speaker to look at the stony-faced Russians, at an Anglo-American huddle...
...geography professor at Yale, Stephen B. Jones, spent three long evenings reviewing a manuscript for a New York publishing house. He got a check for $15. The sum, said the publishers, could only suggest their gratitude. "I had given them the best advice and comment I could . . . and for about a dollar and a half an hour," said Professor Jones. "I mailed back the check with a letter saying I. would appreciate one that equaled their gratitude instead of merely suggesting it." (The publishers eventually sent...
Robert Bierstedt, University of Illinois professor of sociology, was asked to criticize a manuscript, list possible improvements, estimate sales, suggest the effects of popularization-all for $30. "My fee," replied Bierstedt, "has gone up to $100." Sorry, said the publisher, we can't afford it: we contribute to scholarship by bringing out books that will never make money. "Such solicitude [for scholarship]," wrote Bierstedt, "is touching"-but he had seen too many lavish dinners go on publishers' expense accounts. "Professors may be stupid when it comes to dollars," he concluded, "but they know a little something about dialectic...