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...collection in the world and the third biggest collection in the U. S.,* are that it is not named the Widener Library as most of its patrons think and that it is not run by a professional librarian. Last week the second of these peculiarities disappeared as Historian Robert Pierpont Blake announced that he was turning over his job as director to Keyes Metcalf, Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian Metcalf, 47, who will also serve as college librarian, began his career as a page in the Oberlin College Library...
Married. Louise Converse Morgan, 20, daughter of Banker Junius Spencer Morgan, eldest granddaughter of Banker John Pierpont Morgan; to Raymond Skinner Clark, 23; in Grandfather Morgan's Episcopal Church of St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, Long Island...
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...
...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...
...officers elected were: President, Secor D. Browne '38, Vice-President, David C. Wilder '39, Manager, William H. Brown '38, Secretary - Treasurer, John H. Pierpont '39, Publicity, John F. Purcell '38, Librarian, John C. Jones, 3rd '39, Specialties, Charles C. Lawrence '38, Vocal Club, Edward L. Barnes '38, Banjo-Mandolin, Henry W. Locke '38, Gold Coast Orchestra, Harvey A. Robinson...