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Beginning in 1930, Ellerman worked for five years on the first volume. Day after day he pegged away in the Natural History and British Museums, speaking to no one but the director and technical assistants. Each night he and his wife would pore over the day's notes, and she would draw anatomical sketches...
...crowds there, from a traveling sign that girdles its old wedge-shaped building). Its present home is half a block away on West 43rd Street, with a new eleven-story annex that breaks through to 44th. This week it will open a fancy information center, where readers may pore over bound volumes and Microfilm editions of the Times that go back...
Every month in the U.S., almost 20,000,000 avid readers pore over 20-odd periodicals devoted to the greater glamor of Hollywood's stars. But in recent months the readers have seemed less avid. Movie magazine sales, which rose more than 400% in the 15 years before 1946, slipped sharply when the movie box office slumped last fall and the studios canceled 60% of their movie-magazine advertising...
Isaiah Bowman did. From the little boy who liked to pore over stones on his father's farm, he grew up to become the nation's top geographer. He wrote 14 books on the subject, was Woodrow Wilson's boundary expert at Versailles ("Tell me what's right," commanded Wilson, "and I'll fight for it"). His name was stamped on far-off places. There is a Bowman Bay, a Bowman Island, a Bowman glacier...
Married students escape the hardships of the single. "My wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...