Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...This odd request illustrates the versatility expected of our research librarians. There are 18 of them (14 women, four men) in TIME Inc.'s Morgue (i.e., library of essential information). All are college graduates and graduate librarians. Their operation has been an important part of TIME'S editorial process since about 1937. By then our morgue had become so large and complex that the editorial researchers needed help in selecting from it the background material, facts and information they used for swift and accurate checking...
...TIME'S cover on New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer. After receiving the 30 folders on O'Dwyer, the researcher called for everything on New York City. Told that that would mean some 800 folders, 50 books, and innumerable magazine articles, she revised her request somewhat. The research librarian selected a group of books he thought would be most valuable, sent along a batch of folders on finance, government, industries, etc., added some selected material from the periodicals file. As the story progressed, checking points inevitably arose on which the researcher needed specific information...
...Martin Block's Make-Believe Ballroom, on which Disc Jockey Block presents new records, plays request numbers. Typical recent request from "Alex," a listener in Switzerland: play some bop. Block's grave answer: "Alex, did you know that bop is on its way out? . . .Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie has given up bop?" Block then played one of Gillespie's post-bop numbers entitled You Stole My Wife-You Horse Thief...
...welcome in Hollywood as a tarantula at a picnic, but he had finally won an audience with MGM's Dore Schary, in charge of public relations for the Motion Picture Industry Council. He asked Schary for help in lining up meetings with other industry leaders. Schary passed the request along to the council, which decided to take it "under consideration." Meanwhile, on his $9-a-day expense allowance, the investigator could go on contemplating sin without much risk of running into...
Dunster House representatives William H. Claflin '50, Alvin H. Baum '52, and Richard M. Edelman '52 had less success with their case. City Councilman Edward Sullivan and property owner Mrs. Eva Bakas opposed Dunster's request to use the University property for a parking...