archivist
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When Ernst Jorgensen, an archivist who has worked with the Presley estate since 1988, first met Guralnick, he recalled asking him, “how do we get rid of tabloid Elvis?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
The cathedral archivist admits to being taken aback by the package, but alongside the skull was a letter of explanation.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
Historians are divided, with Athens' Benaki Museum's head archivist Tasos Sakellaropoulos calling the tomb a "place of silent collective memory and respect, not of pain or anger" in Kathimerini daily.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
In the 1950s and ’60s, a literary-minded cat named Dr. Absalom Minola — writing via his “butler,” future UC Berkeley archivist Jim Kantor — began sending letters to authors, editors and public figures.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
Two tiny figures made their way through the center of it: Magister Brangwain Spurge and the goblin archivist Werfel, fleeing from the crashed sphere.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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