Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pulled from their shelves in steel-lined vaults, 150 manuscript treasures of the semi-public Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan went on view last week. Books displayed ranged from Caxton's History of Troy, first book printed in the English language, to J. P. Morgan's privately printed prayer book. The exhibition was not to honor the books themselves, but the slender blonde woman who had rebound all of them with her own hands: Marguerite Duprez Lahey...
Bookbinder Lahey, a good friend of Morgan Librarian Belle da Costa Greene, did her first work for the elder Morgan in 1911. Employing no assistants, she works seven hours a day at her task, scrapes her own skins, sews pages, pastes, mounts, presses, tools and letters all the bindings. For decoration she uses the purest gold leaf, occasionally platinum. For leather she prefers Cape Levant from the backs of goats that have run wild on the Cape of Good Hope for seven years. A surprise among the priceless rarities in Miss Lahey's exhibition was the original typescript...
...since then there have been 48 others. Average circulation of the reviews: 1,414-the largest (Harvard's) 4,400, the smallest 375-with students accounting for 18% of the total. Some Harvard Law Review editors who have made good: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, retiring SEChairman James McCauley Landis, Morgan Partner Seymour Parker Gilbert, Harvard's Felix Frankfurter...
...wedding of James Potter Polk, son of onetime (1918-19) Acting Secretary of State Frank Lyon Polk, and Margaret Smith Salvage in swank Lattingtown, L. I. went J. Pierpont Morgan. When he went into the church, he clapped his topper over his face to foil a battery of nine cameramen. When he left the church he threatened the cameramen with his umbrella. On each occasion he was thoroughly photographed. Muttered the 69-year-old financier, getting into his Rolls-Royce: "They won't leave me alone. And those flashlights scare me to death...
...Year-and-a-half ago the Morgan Line held a shipwreck reunion in Manhattan aboard the repaired S. S. Dixie (TIME...