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Established in 1923 with little more than a Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary and a world almanac, the Time Inc. library has grown into the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., with 25 professional librarians and 63 clerks, newspaper markers and indexers. Last year it processed 150,576 queries from the company's various operations, 58,839 from TIME alone. The library contains half a million information folders on people, companies and news topics, 87,000 books and government publications and a running collection of several hundred periodicals. About the only thing it lacks is space...
...three years now, the key to that defense's success has been middle guard Kevin Czinger. He pronounces his name "Zinger," and if they listed it in Roget's, you would find it next to "tough." It seems that nothing--not a badly sprained ankle suffered in Yale's 35-7 humiliation of Dartmouth, not a sinus infection that spread into his lung before Yale clobbered Princeton (he played anyway), not his opponents' constant tendency to double-team him--can stop Kevin Czinger...
...slip into your Jofa helmet and sharpen your Koho stick. Face-off time is nigh approaching. At the Forum, Roget Doucet is singing "Oh, Canada," and we can hear him. Screw the blue books, it's blue line time. The referee is an Islander fan, but any hockey esoterica is fair game...
...Robert Sidorsky a Roget's Thesaurus so he'll finally learn some big words...
...ROGET'S POCKET THESAURUS...