One staffer obsessively clipped every Moses newspaper story for decades without contact

Evidence

Moses so fascinated Gaus that for more than two decades, while the young social worker was carving out a reputation as an author of books on public administration and as a professor of government at Harvard University, never seeing Moses during all that time, he collected every newspaper clipping about Moses that he saw, just so he could keep track of his career. After he retired, in 1961, Gaus began collecting clippings on Moses again, filing them in cartons which he kept in the attic of his Utica, New York, home, and he kept filling those cartons until the day of his death. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 492

Categorization

• CANDY: A strange sidebar — the arc of an admirer collecting clippings from youth to death.