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Fortunately for us, the 50 different kinds of Who's Who reposing in TIME Inc.'s morgue (i.e., "library of essential information") are a constant and reliable journalistic source of biographical factsand a bulwark against the uproar occasioned when we misspell somebody's name. These are only a fragment, however, of the 29,000 reference books I find we now have in the morgue* for the convenience of TIME'S editors, who call for them at the rate of about 500 a weekplus an average 40 or 50 that have to be obtained from local libraries.
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