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...throw away an empty whiskey bottle without hitting somebody who's just invented a blind-landing system. So says Irving Metcalf, senior aeronautical engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce. Mr. Metcalf himself has designed a practical instrument landing device. And, according to an article, "Under the Weather," published this week in FORTUNE, there are about ten dependable blind-landing systems, including "Air-Track" (TIME...
Most complete collection of the works of Herman Melville, American novelist and author of "Moby Dick" has been presented to the University by the author's grand-daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Melville Metcalf, of Cambridge, it was disclosed yesterday...
...Metcalf, whose post makes him a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is the first trained "career librarian" to have charge of the Harvard libraries. In the past, profession have been appointed to superintend the library administration in an advisory capacity. Faculty men, however, seem to approve of the new efficiency and to find Metcalf easy to work with...
...Metcalf stated that he had no bias in favor of trained librarians, and would always get "the best man for the job." He indicated that for some posts it would be imperative to engage men who had studied to be librarians, but that for others, such as heads of music libraries, it would be impossible to find trained men with sufficient knowledge of the field...
Although by this time he has a working knowledge of the system, Metcalf admitted that there were still units in the Library which he had not visited. For some 15 departmental libraries--such as the Medical School library, the Peabody Museum and the Blue Hill Observatory--he has nominal jurisdiction