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Library was spine of prominent lives // City's leaders got started by the book

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860327
Author:Delia O'Hara

((PHOTO CAPTION CONTINUED)) several biographies, says a writer will find his way to the library as surely as "a dog let out of a car will find his way home." Reading the Nick Carter and Buster Brown series, books by Jack London and all the Zane Grey books, "I went through whole sections of the library," says Mayor Washington. "Going into a library is like entering a new country, a new world," says Gwendolyn Brooks. "What happened outdoors a few minutes ago doesn't matter." "Reading was my primary rec-reation" as a boy, Gov. Thompson says. "I went to the main library every time I went ...

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