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Samuel Johnson, in his own idiosyncratic dictionary, defined lexicographer as a "harmless drudge." Murray was a delightful drudge of enormous energy. Born in a small Scottish village and largely self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for groceries. For a time a schoolmaster and later a London bank clerk, Murray was drawn into the dictionary project by his work with the Philological Society. In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot...
Jimmy Carter says, "Rosalynn is an almost equal extension of me." There is the same soft manner superimposed over gritty determination, the same dedication to God and hard work, the same self-confidence self-taught. It disturbs her that Jimmy Carter is still so little understood. "As I look back on it, it really is amazing that he could win-that we could win. People knew Ford, and he was comfortable. But they really did not know who Jimmy Carter was. They just took him on faith...
...course, the better a skier you are the more you can enjoy the sensation of sliding downhill. Anyone with enough patience who is willing to withstand a few seasons of embarrassing uncoordination can learn to ski well, and no matter what legions of instructors say, skiing can be a self-taught discipline. All you need is someone to show you the basics...
Died. Jerome Snyder, 60, self-taught illustrator, designer and gourmet; of a heart attack after playing his customary Sunday touch-football game in Central Park; in Manhattan. Snyder became in 1954 the first art director of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, then held the same post at Scientific American from 1962 to 1970. Meanwhile, he collaborated on a popular guide to good cheap restaurants, The Underground Gourmet, and on a dining-out column for New York magazine...
Died. Rube Bloom, 73, self-taught jazz pianist and composer whose songs include Give Me the Simple Life, Truckin ' and Fools Rush In; in Manhattan. Bloom first stepped into the jazz spotlight in 1928, when he won a Victor Records contest with his hit Song of the Bayou, and stayed there for decades...