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...efforts lie in two directions. In Widener he is supervising the creation of a collection of general literature on Journalism, in connection with which he will attempt to assimilate microfilm pictures of contemporary newspapers all over the world. The second job is acting as adviser and supervisor of the Nieman follows, a group of newspapermen who are studying at the University this year in fields of their own selection...
...Into the capsule they had crammed a cross-section of 20th-century culture- films, clothing, articles "pertaining to the grooming and vanity of women," poker chips, slips of paper, dimes and dictionaries, reproductions of art, letters, music, a copy of TIME'S 15th-anniversary issue (February 28) on microfilm. Three items chosen to show the "Futurian Man" typical prodigies of 20th-century music were: 1) Finlandia by Jean Sibelius; 2) The Stars & Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa; 3) Flat Foot Floogie by Bud Green, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart...
Archibald MacLeish, poet and magazine writer, who won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1932, will be Curator of the newly founded Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism at the Library. He will supervise the formation of a library of general literature on modern journalism, and also a microfilm collection of major contemporary newspapers in many countries...
INSIDE OUT-An Introduction to Autobiography-Sheridan House ($5). A book about autobiographies (410 of them in 23 languages), indispensable to libraries, for whom it is available in microfilm as well as book form. In microfilm, this 713-page, 5-lb. volume, is only 48 feet of 16 mm. film (the width of home cinema film) reeled into a spool the size of a typewriter ribbon, with its tin container weighs one-quarter pound. Microfilm copies of rare books are used in many libraries; this is the first new book to be issued in that form...
...live in a new world,' he said. 'St. Bernards are killing little girls. Books, or what pass for books, are being photographed on microfilm. There is a cemetery I want to see,' he continued, 'a grove where ancient trees shelter the graves and throw their umbrage on the imponderable dead. The branches of these trees, my dear young man, are alive with loudspeakers. I believe Upper Montclair is the place. That is one reason for my departure-I have certain macabre pilgrimages to make, while the lustiness is still in my bones...