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Marilyn Johnson Biography

Marilyn Kinsman Johnson (February 18, 1928 – October 31, 2007) was an American bridge player from Houston, Texas. She won three world championships, one at women pairs and two at women teams, all in partnership with Mary Jane Farell. Farell and Johnson also won the North American von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs in 1978, which no other pair of women has done (1930 to 2014).

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This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

Greatest, Modern, Romance, Staff

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Auditoriums, Book, Bricks And Mortar, Circles, Talks

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

Case, Community, Police, Professionals, Teacher

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Librarian, Terrible, Thing, Tough, Tough Times, Waste

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

Favorite, Favorite Words, Men, Shoes, Word

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph. D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Commitment, Essential, Intelligence, Libraries, Loss, Player

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

Certain, Future, Gone, Important, Things, Though

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

Down, Down And, History, Pours, Stories, Waterfalls

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

Billionaire, Essentials, Levels, Player, Players, Same

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

Course, Courses, Libraries, Library, Stand

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

Breathe, Death, Obituaries, Part, Trying, Writing

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

Aptitude, Memories, Organization, Skills

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Democracy, Foundation, Free, Information