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After the death of Coolidge's mother in Feb. 1954, Acting Librarian Verner W. Clapp informed him that he was the natural choice to succeed his mother as head of the foundation. Coolidge formally applied for the job, but he heard nothing more about the application which he had filed. He was informed this fall that the F.B.I. had produced derogatory information concerning his past record, and that his application had been disregarded...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, discussed by University of Michigan Professor Verner Crane, TIME'S Robert Manning...
...state legislature announced that the $1,500,000 appropriation that the library had been expecting so long would not go to the library after all. Instead, it will pay the cost of adding 22,000 more seats to the seldom-filled 39,200-seat stadium that Huey built. ¶Verner W. Clapp, chief assistant librarian of Congress, warned U.S. scientists to restrain themselves. Today, said he, there are nearly 2,000,000 scientific articles that U.S. librarians have not yet had time to catalogue-and the backlog is increasing at the rate of 215,000 a year. ¶Union Carbide...
Broadway felt much the same way about her abilities. Critic Dorothy Parker helped brush Kate off the stage with the withering comment: "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.'' Producer Joseph Verner Reed thought she might be better at high hurdles than at acting. Playwright Benn Levy said flatly: "She looks a fright, her manner is objectionable, and she has no talent...