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October 29, 1938

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A MOUSETRAP IN THE BRONX

PROFILE of Halsey William Wilson, founder of the H. W. Wilson Co., indexing firm. Every year 25,000 books, 1450 periodicals, and thousands of pamphlets are…

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a reporter at large

REPORTER AT LARGE

Geoffrey T. Hellman

History of No. 9 Lexington Avenue, built in 1850 by Peter Cooper, who lived there until his death in 1883. During his thirty-odd years there, the house had…

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