John Bainbridge collection, 1939-1992 bulk 1940-1980.

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John Bainbridge collection, 1939-1992 bulk 1940-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/439892844

Collection includes manuscripts, research material, correspondence, printed material, and audio recordings. Research material in the collection is extensive, consisting of numerous files arranged by various subjects. Many of the files relate to Bainbridge's books. Files for Little Wonder include manuscripts, correspondence from the New Yorker staff, articles regarding Bainbridge's New Yorker series on Reader's Digest, and an essay by Edward Collins Downing. Files for The Wonderful World of Toots Shor include correspondence (including several letters from Toots Shor to Bainbridge), interview transcripts, printed items, and numerous pages of biographical notes and material. Files for Garbo include photographs, publicity items regarding Greta Garbo, biographical notes, and interviews, including interview with John and Penelope Betjeman. Files for The Super-Americans include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, interviews, photographs, printed items, and more. The files for Like a Homesick Angel include correspondence and notes. The files for Biography of an Idea include several articles regarding Mutual Fire and Casualty Insurance, along with correspondence and notes. Other topics represented in the research files include material collected for various New Yorker and other magazine articles (dating from the 1940s through the 1960s); Louis Bromfield; California; George Bernard Shaw; the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; England; Gourmet magazine (correspondence); and The Atlantic Monthly (from the early 1960s). Correspondence in the collection includes several letters sent to Bainbridge, including several regarding his New Yorker articles and his books Garbo and The Super-Americans. Notable correspondents include Sen. John J. Williams, Sen. William Proxmire, Stanley Marcus, J. Edgar Hoover, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Printed material in the collection includes published versions of his writings for The New Yorker (1939-1960s) as well as his writings on Greta Garbo for various magazines; dust jackets and cover designs for his books; and hundreds of reviews of The Super-Americans. Audio recordings in the collection include cassette tapes and dozens of reel-to-reel tapes of interviews conducted by Bainbridge, as well as talks or readings given by him. In addition, the collection has many recordings of John Betjeman from the 1970s.

125.5 linear ft.

Boston University. School of Medicine

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SNAC Resource ID: 7536884

Boston University. School of Medicine

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

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The collection mainly contains post-1961 administrative files which the Center had microfilmed, then shipped to Princeton University, and which subsequently were transferred from Princeton University to UCSB in 1999. From the description of Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions / Princeton University Files, 1957-1969 (bulk dates 1962-1965) (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 216936155 History of the Center ...

Bainbridge, John, 1913-1992

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Author and journalist; joined the editorial staff of The New Yorker in 1938. From the description of John Bainbridge collection, 1939-1992 bulk 1940-1980. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 439892844 ...

Chetwode, Penelope

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Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956

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Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist from central Ohio who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. From the guide to the Louis Bromfield correspondence to Edna Wolfe, 1942-1949, (Ohio University) American author and conservationist. From 1939-1969 he lived and did sustainable farming at Malabar Farm, Lucas, Ohio. From the description of [Signature, 19--] / Louis Bromf...

Betjeman, John, 1906-1984

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John Betjeman was a poet, journalist, free-lance writer, architectural commentator, broadcaster, and television personality who was popular in England in the 1960s and 1970s and was active in the campaigning for the preservation of churches, buildings and landscape. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972. During his time at Oxford University, Betjeman's active social life included writers such as Evelyn Waugh, Bryan Guiness, Graham Greene, and W.H. Auden. He married Penelope Ch...

Downing, Edward Collins, 1862-1948

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Williams, John J. (John James), 1904-1988

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Shor, Toots, 1903-1977

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Restaurateur; interviewee known as "Toots". From the description of Reminiscences of Bernard Shor: oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725383 ...

Proxmire, William

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Marcus, Stanley, 1905-

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