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2007 Unfilled requests

January-February 2007

George Gould Strong

George Gould Strong born 1910 died about 1964 in Southampton Hospital, Southampton, Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York. I have searched for a NYT obituary with no luck, but there should have been a local obituary. Does anyone have access to the archives of the Southampton Press or the Easthampton Star or another local paper? - Nunh-huh 20:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
JOHN N. STRONG

Specfal to THE NEW' YORE TI:MS. New York Times (1857-Current file); Nov 14, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003) pg. 16.

Do you want it? There is sparse mention, it's his dad's obit. I also found a ref to a George Strong who was elected mayor of "The Landing" in the 1930s, is this him? IvoShandor 11:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Ivo for spotting this. I've had a look, and that's him, but unfortunately his dad's obit doesn't carry enough information about the son for "creating-an-article" purposes. I don't know if George Strong was ever elected mayor of anything.... - Nunh-huh 15:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this George G. Strong a musician (the guy in this article)? Or can you tell me a bit what you do know about him? It would help with my search. Key to the city 09:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nunh-huh responded on my talk page with this:

Yes, George Gould Strong was the guy depicted in the musical Grey Gardens. Basically, I know this: he was born 21 January 1910 in East Hampton, New York, the son of John Young Strong and Fannie (Baker) Strong, growing up in a house on Amagansett Road. He lived for a time in Paris, and in New York City at 725 Lexington Avenue, probably after he lived at Grey Gardens. He was, as depicted in the musical, the personal accompanist of Edith Beale; he was also an accompanist in Paris and New York, and is said to have had a radio show in New York. Though the musical depicts him as gay, it's not that clear that's actually true, and it's certainly not true that he committed suicide (except metaphorically); he died, apparently about 1964 in Southampton Hospital in Southampton, Long Island, the cause of death apparently being gastrointestinal hemorrhage from drinking, complicated by the fact that he had become a Christian Scientist (which may be something he picked up from Mrs. Beale). I wanted especially to firm up his date of death (the 1964 is an estimate based on someone's recollection that he died when she was 12), which is probably only possible if his obituary can be located in the Southampton Bee or Easthampton Star or one of the other local papers. - Nunh-huh 21:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I did some research, but I got to admid that this one is out of my league. I hope an American helps you with this request. But I thought I post the answer anyway, maybe it helps other researchers. Key to the city 09:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April-May 2007

William McCrum

I'm trying to find the obituary of William McCrum. This FIFA page mentions 'In 1932 an obituary appeared in a Northern Ireland paper in Milford, County Armagh'. I don't know the exact date of the obit' or which paper it was in but it must have been in late December as he died 'just before Christmas'. Sorry for the vagueness, any hints appreciated. JMiall 15:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is an obit in the Irish Times (22 Dec 1932); William McCrum died 21 Dec 1932: Irish Times 1932 contains link to original source.—Ash (talk) 13:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July-August 2007

Jelqing

"There has been only one study on “jelqing” done by Dr. Brian Richards in the late 1970s. The British Journal of Sexual Medicine published the results. According to the study, 87 percent of men had positive results." [1]. Does anyone have access or exact bibliographical reference? [2] -- Thanx Cherubino 12:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only remotely similar reference I could find in Pubmed was Richards BA. "Mechanical aids to sex." Br J Sex Med. 1975 Oct;2(5):33-5, 37. No abstract available. PMID: 830127 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]." This is probably it, but I don't have access to the journal. The term doesn't appear anywhere in PubMed, which is pretty suspicious. -- phoebe/(talk) 01:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

October 2007

Louis R. Vitullo

I already have plenty of newspaper articles about the guy (Chicago Sun-Times), but I wonder if the National Cyclopedia of American Biography I requested for Paul Kirk also has info on Vitullo. I came up empty in my own library, but they lack a lot of publications. Any other biographical entry is welcome too. - Mgm|^(talk) 18:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Wornum, George Wilkinson (music publisher)

Michael Kassler in "Broderip, Wilkinson and the first English edition of the '48'" Musical Times, Summer 2006 quotes a little from an advertisement with details about the fire at 315 Oxford street in The Times but NewspaperArchive seems to be missing the issue from October 13, 1812 - I don't know if Gale has it. threesixesinarow@yahoo.com

The Times October 13, 1812, p.2

- Mireut 14:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that paper is so old, that there is no digital copy available; Lexis Nexis doesn't have it either. I think you'd have to ask The Times directly, or head for the British Library. - Mgm|^(talk) 17:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 2010

Yale University Syllabus Browser

Stale

-This is not what Resource exchange is for.

If anyone has access to Yale University's Central Authentication Service. I'd like the syllabus to "RLST 152 01 IntroNewTestamentHistory&Lit". The course was held in Spring 2009 in the Religious Studies department:

https://classesv2.yale.edu/portal/site/!gateway/page/d780d746-3438-4060-8003-e0c82dd91ca2

The course on Open Yale Courses seems to omit the syllabus, so I'm getting a kind of an incomplete feel for the course...

Thanks in advance. --ION123456 (talk) 21:57, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011

Dictionary of Business Biography and Who Was Who

N - no point in cluttering this page with the outstanding requests any longer. The article got GA status without the info, & I can live with that. - Sitush (talk) 00:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to track down biographical information for the article on Churchill Machine Tool Company and would be grateful if anyone has access to either or both of the Dictionary of Business Biography (ed: David J Jeremy, Butterworths 1984-86, 5 volumes, isbn for the first is 0406273413) ~~or really old copies of Who Was Who~~ could see look into any available entries for:

* Sir Greville Simpson Maginness (born 1888)

Arthur Chamberlain (d. circa 1941 - not his father, who had same name and who died in 1913) - sorted, thanks to user:Smallman12q

Herbert Chamberlain (1845-1904)

Walter Chamberlain (b. 1847)

Charles Churchill (b. 1838, USA - d. Feb 1916)

John William Wright Gabriel (b. 1860)

~~All of the above were directors of Charles Churchill & Co Ltd and/or The Churchill Machine Tool Co Ltd. & they mostly had fingers in many pies.~~

Also, the article on Maginness in the periodical Sheet Metal Industries, volume 25 (1948) p. 1997 - there is a snippet view here [3]. Long list, sorry, but thanks for any assistance. Sitush (talk) 05:48, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am pretty sure that this Sheet Metal Industries item is available for full view in the US - if anyone in the USA is prepared to check this then I'd be grateful. It looks like it might fill a few gaps. - Sitush (talk) 09:51, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, it looks like its just snippet view in the US as well. GabrielF (talk) 15:04, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for trying. I'll leave this up for another week and then strike it. Looks like I'll have to find someone prepared to dig around in the British Library/Cambridge University Library - Sitush (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hans Gierke and Joseph Disse

I am looking for a copy of this article:

Koseki T. Hans Gierke and Joseph Disse; foreign teachers of anatomy at Tokyo University early in the Meiji Era (part I). Nippon Ishigaku Zasshi. 1982 Jul;28(3):317-27. PMID 11616066

I'm aware that it's written in Japanese (a friend of mine will help me with translation). There is no other article indexed in PubMed that deals with dr Hans Paul Bernhard Gierke (1847-1886). It may contain a photo of Gierke, too.

It may be tough to find this article, I'll really appreciate this. Thank you. Filip em (talk) 21:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Czesc, I have Gierke's obituary for you (in German), maybe it is helpful: [4]. Please leave me a short note when you've downloaded it. And if you would like to find out more about Gierke, feel free to ask at de:WP:BIBA, the German resource request page. --тнояsтеn ⇔ 22:37, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I got it. I have found some other sources to Gierke's biography, so I have started the articles for pl:, de: and en:wikipedia. However, the Japanese period in Gierke's biography seems to be somewhat mysterious (so is his disease). If someone could be of help, it would be great. Cheers, Filip em (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That Koseki paper, OCLC 113471412, is held in 20 different major libraries (mostly universities in the US, UK, and Germany). Follow the link and plug in your zip/postcode to find one near you. If none, I'm sure someone can help out. You might even be able to get it by Interlibrary loan. Cheers. LeadSongDog come howl! 21:57, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to get it for you at Berlin State Library but the requested issue is not available there. --тнояsтеn ⇔ 12:02, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I tried Staatsbibliothek too. I'll try Wellcome Library maybe. Thank you for your efforts on this. Filip em (talk) 19:22, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Amerax language

Disregard

– No longer needed. The page has been deleted already. Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:43, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is supposedly a publication by the linguist J. Milton Cowan, published in 1990, which describes a language/dialect called "Amerax", supposedly spoken by converts to Islam in American prisons. However, I haven't been able to find a full citation for the article, much less the article itself. The Amerax language article is currently up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amerax language, and even though I've already recommended deletion, I'd like to know what the original source says about this language. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:53, 24 October 2011 (UTC) Done[reply]