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...Denver Public Library boasted of a fine collection. The librarians worked in peaceful seclusion over its catalogs, browsed undisturbed among the locked shelves. Bolok-seekers seldom dared or had a chance to interrupt them in their solemn labors. But one day the quiet, musty atmosphere of the building was suddenly shattered. John Cotton Dana, a civil engineer, was made Librarian. Declaring the value of a library was not in its collection but circulation, he opened the shelves, removed red-tape, gave Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical...
Prime Minister Mussolini made no comment on the decision. He had hoped to receive not only the unclaimed estates of Italians in the U. S. but of Italians in Argentina, who largely control that country's business and who, fond of Italy, seldom become Argentine citizens...
...Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that...
...round. Jones had been four strokes under Espinosa at lunchtime. For Espinosa to remain in the lead for the title, as he was when he turned on his shower, it would be necessary for Jones to come in with a score of 80. As Espinosa well knew, Jones very seldom requires 80 shots for a round of golf anywhere, at any time...
...Burnetts went to Chicago. She got a job in an office. He worked briefly in the Marshall Field department store. Burnett seldom saw his wife those days. At night he loafed around with gangsters and pugilists. He was getting material for his sixth novel, Little Caesar, and his seventh, Iron Man, a soon-to-be-published prize-ring story. Almost 100,000 people have bought Little Caesar. So Author Burnett is no longer a part-time novelist. At his ease in Tombstone, Ariz., he is working full-time on an eighth novel, about a U. S. soldier in the Southwest...