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{"value"=>"445929", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1932-1981", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1932/1981"}
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{"value"=>"Series III: Kenneth Durant"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"8 boxes"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Kenneth Durant (1889-1972) was born on October 9, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1911 and an A.M. in 1914. During World War I he served as assistant director of the news division of George Creel's Committee on Public Information. He also worked in Paris, New York, and Rome with the foreign press and cable division. In 1919, he attended the Versailles peace conference as an aide to Colonel Edward M. House, Woodrow Wilson's envoy. From 1923 to 1944, Durant was the U.S. bureau chief of the Soviet news agency TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union), based in New York City. He was first married to literary editor Ernestine Evans, and following their divorce he married Genevieve Taggard in March 1935. Following Taggard's death, he remarried to Helen van Dongen, a film editor, in 1950. Together they worked on a study of the origins and evolution of the Adirondack guide-boat, eventually publishing an authoritative history on the subject. Kenneth Durant died in November 1972 in Jamaica, Vermont.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence, legal documents, and other materials related to Durant's decades-long attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of Genevieve Taggard's work and to ensure that her legacy endured by donating her papers and books to libraries and archives. It includes papers of a more personal nature, such as records of Durant's adoption of Marcia, Taggard's daughter with Robert L. Wolf, and correspondence with many of Taggard's friends and former students in the years after her death.</p> <p>Of particular note are the bibliographic card files, which Durant compiled over the course of many years. Because no comprehensive bibliography of Taggard's published work exists, these files are useful for scholars hoping to grasp the extent of her work or to locate lesser-known works. All materials in this series relate to Taggard and/or Durant's advocacy for her legacy; none of his papers, personal or professional, concerning other matters are included here.</p>"}
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1932
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1932
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1981
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1932
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1981