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DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

When Widener Librarian Marion E. Schoon was given an old, aristocratic French name to research she logged into the College's library database and, after a few skillful search words, unearthed a clue: a historic museum in a town where a French family of the same name might have resided...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Libraries Kill Catalogues, Take new Role | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Schoon says that readers ready to give up after fruitlessly flipping through card catalogues or hammering away at HOLLIS often approach her with a variety of requests...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Libraries Kill Catalogues, Take new Role | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard has a complex library system," Schoon says. "Librarians are not necessarily subject specialists, but rather path-finders...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Libraries Kill Catalogues, Take new Role | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...course, as Schoon says, an easy way to read the magazine is on microfilm. "The microfilm does not have centerfolds," she adds...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: From Lady Chatterley to Playboy | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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