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Article: Talk keeps audience spellbound; Merriam-Webster executive speaks at West Brookfield event.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- April 22, 2007
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Byline: Bradford L. Miner
WEST BROOKFIELD - Like a parent loath to identify a favorite child, John Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster Inc., doesn't have a favorite word.
For the past decade, though, under the watchful countenance of Charles Merriam, Mr. Morse has been chief steward of nearly half a million words as well as their spellings, definitions and origins.
Thursday night, he held an audience of two-dozen people spellbound at the Merriam-Gilbert Library, chronicling the printing and publishing career of the library's benefactor, Charles Merriam.
The evening culminated in the unveiling of a pastel and pencil ...