One hundred books famous in science : Ben Grauer's interview with Harrison D. Horblit about the Grolier Club exhibition [transcription disk], 1958.
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Grolier Club
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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...
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Horblit, Harrison D.
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Grauer, Ben
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Born in Staten Island, N.Y., Benjamin Franklin Grauer (1908-1977) had a prosperous career as a child actor in the 1920s, both in film and on Broadway. He graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School, the preparatory school for City College of New York, and he received his B.A. from City College in 1930. Grauer started in radio as an actor but soon became part of the broadcasting staff at the National Broadcasting Company. On the radio, he was associated with Walter Winchell, Eleanor Roosevelt...
Davidson, Alexander W., d. 1967.
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Monitor (Radio Program)
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"Monitor" was a news magazine of the air broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company between 1955 and 1975. Broadcaster Ben Grauer was one of many radio journalists who worked for the program. On March 9, 1958, Grauer interviewed fellow Grolier Club member Harrison D. Horblit about the Club's 1958 exhibition "100 Books Famous in Science" which Horblit had conceived. The Grolier Club published a catalog of the exhibition in 1964. From the description of One hundred books famous in ...
