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	cliff notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cliffs Notes are the best-known series of student study guides in the U.S.
		The company was started by a Nebraska native named Cliff Hillegass in 1958.
		Hillegass started with booklets covering 16 William Shakespeare titles; CliffsNotes now exist on thousands of works.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Cliff_Notes.html (168 words)

	Philip Terzian
		Hillegass was a book salesman in Lincoln, Nebraska, when he stumbled upon the idea of producing brief "study guides" for students on the great works of literature.
		Cliffs Notes, with their characteristic fl-and-yellow-striped covers, became immediate best sellers, furnishing high school and college students with the rudiments of novels, plays and poems without taking the time (or effort) to read them.
		Hillegass borrowed $4,000 from a local bank, produced the first editions in his basement, and the rest is cultural history.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/terzian050901.asp (742 words)

	Independent Headlines: White whale meets warning sign yellow 12/11/98
		Cliff Hillegass, who started Cliff Notes in Lincoln 40 years ago, sold the business to IDG Books Worldwide Inc. this week for $14.2 million.
		For Cliff Notes -- academic succor for the busy, the superficial and the lazy -- it was a match made in no-brainer heaven.
		Older and much wiser friends said Cliff Notes was the best way to navigate the treacherous waters of Herman Melville's story about Capt. Ahab's obsessive and eventually deadly pursuit of the white whale that had taken his leg.
	www.theindependent.com /Images/121198/stories/121198/Opi_ayoub11.html (700 words)

	CliffsNotes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		CliffsNotes was started by a Nebraska native named Clifton Hillegass in 1958.
		Hillegass started with booklets covering 16 William Shakespeare titles, with the first being Hamlet; CliffsNotes now exist on hundreds of works.
		John Wiley and Sons, a publisher of scientific and technical publications, bought CliffsNotes in 2001 from IDG Books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cliff's_Notes (240 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- Goodbye, Mr. Cliffs Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hillegass loved books; he felt strongly that his booklets should be used to enhance students' reading experiences, not take the place of reading the books themselves.
		Saturday, my mom lost one of her most formidable adversaries when Cliff Hillegass, inventor of the little yellow books, died at the age of 83.
		Hillegass abdicated responsibility for his eponymous Notes when he sold the company for $14 million back in 1999, but the cheerful yellow and fl design, which has served as a beacon for lazy or overworked high schoolers since 1958, remains the same.
	www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,108938,00.html (825 words)

	Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » The Impetus Behind CliffsNotes
		Hillegass, who died a few years ago at the age of 83, was a disciple of the “self-starter” school of thought.
		Hillegass, it seems, was a grad student in geology and physics working as a college representative for Long’s College Bookstore.
		But despite Cliff’s quirkiness and generosity, his statement is a bit like telling a pyromaniac with a lighter that he should probably use the disposable Bic in a judicious manner.
	www.edrants.com /?p=1631 (431 words)

	Page One - Topics - Cliff's Notes
		Eighty percent of the teachers agreed with the use of Cliff’s Notes as long as they are used as an aid to the book, not as a substitute.
		Cliff Hillegass, founder of Cliff’s Notes, was born in a small, rural, Nebraska town named Rising City.
		Hillegass graduated from the University of Nebraska in the 1930s, and began to work in a bookstore.
	www.pageoneonline.net /main/archive/Feb26th01/0226cliff.htm (744 words)

	JS Online: Here's a short look at story of CliffsNotes founder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cliff K. Hillegass, father of CliffsNotes study guides, died Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. He was 83 and had recently suffered a stroke.
		In an introduction to his guides, he said that "a thorough appreciation of literature allows no shortcuts." After he sold the company in 1998 for $14 million, his gentle warning was removed from all CliffsNotes editions.
		In Hillegass' life story, themes of discipline and erudition come into conflict with modern haste and an overemphasis on quantitative grades.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/may01/cliffs09050801.asp?format=print (222 words)

	Celebrity Deathwatch: Cliff Hillegass, Cliff Notes Founder, 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/books/05/05/obit.hillegass/index.html Cliffs Notes founder dies at age 83 May 5, 2001 Web posted at: 5:17 PM EDT (2117 GMT) LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) -- Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes, whose study guides helped generations of high school and college students through literature classes, died Saturday.
		Hillegass died at his home of complications from a stroke he suffered in late April, his family said.
		Hillegass founded Cliffs Notes in 1958 with a $4,000 loan, writing his study guides in the basement of his Lincoln home.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00265.html (315 words)

	Garden Of Remembrance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cliff Hillegass, the founder of the company that for decades published ‘Cliff’s Notes’, was just such a man
		However, Hillegass was usually first in line to warn students that his notes should only be used as supplemental guides, saying, “A thorough appreciation of literature allows no shortcuts," in the preface of every book.
		A year later, Hillegass used some of those proceeds to donate $250,000 to establish a professorship in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where it would from then on endow a chair in 19th-century American literature.
	gardenofremembrance.com /pages/cliffhillegass.html (356 words)

	UNL News Releases 11/22/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hillegass recently announced the final distributions from the Cliffs Charitable Foundation.
		In addition, a second gift of $250,000 was made to the Cliff and Mary Hillegass Excellence Fund and creates an endowment at the NU Foundation to offer assistance to the Literary Research Program and Nebraska Writing Project at UNL.
		Although the Hillegasses gave more than $250,000 to the NU Foundation before the establishment of the Cliffs Charitable Foundation, this gift further symbolized their commitment to education and the University, a commitment that still stands as they serve as NU Foundation trustees.
	www.unl.edu /pr/1999/1199/112299bnews.html (620 words)

	Cliffs Notes founder dies - 05/06/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LINCOLN, Neb. -- Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes, whose study guides helped generations of high school and college students through literature classes, is dead.
		Hillegass, 83, died Saturday, May 5, 2001, of complications from a stroke he suffered in late April, his family said.
		Cliffs Notes -- which analyze characters and chapters and explain the works of authors -- became a hit with students.
	www.detnews.com /2001/obituaries/0105/06/a11-220943.htm (200 words)

	TIME.com: Goodbye, Mr. Cliffs Notes -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes study guides
		May 5, 2001: Hillegass dies of complications from a stroke.
		Hillegass would have done well in my mom’s class.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,108938,00.html (1046 words)

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	Cliff Hillegass, Cliffs Notes founder, dies at age 83: 5/7/01
		Cliff Hillegass, Cliffs Notes founder, dies at age 83: 5/7/01
		Cliff Hillegass, Cliffs Notes founder, dies at age 83
		LINCOLN, Neb. -- Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes, whose study guides helped generations of high school and college students through literature classes, died Saturday.
	www.s-t.com /daily/05-01/05-07-01/a09wn050.htm (217 words)

	Cliffs Notes creator to fund English professor's post [Free Republic]
		Hillegass founded Cliffs Notes in 1958 while working at a bookstore at the university.
		Hillegass did graduate work in physics and geology at the university from 1937 to 1939 after graduating from Midland Lutheran College in Fremont.
		Morning, CW..happy Turkeyday.....I can remember back to JHS and HS that if you were caught with Cliff's Notes, you were suspended for a few days...last week, wandering around the local library, I was astonished to find that the libraries carry them in the reference section as resources for the students..ah well....go figure.....
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a383d21b676e6.htm (487 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Cliffs Notes founder dies at age 83 - May 5, 2001
		Hillegass in seen in an undated family photo
		LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) -- Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes, whose study guides helped generations of high school and college students through literature classes, died Saturday.
		Cliffs Notes -- which analyze characters and chapters and explain the works of authors -- became an almost immediate hit with students.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/05/05/obit.hillegass (273 words)

	Hillegass Lighting - Amazing Lighting Guide
		Hillegass is a longtime civic leader in Hampton Roads.
		Hillegass, chairman of the board of Hillegass Lighting Corp. in Chesapeake, is a former president of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American...
		MICHAEL HILLEGASS, the ancestor was a farmer and a native of Pennsylvania.
	www.amazinglightingguide.com /hillegass-lighting.html (460 words)

	The Daily Free Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hillegass thought Cole's idea was good enough to try in the United States, but when he brought the idea to the Nebraska Book Company, it wasn't interested.
		According to Cliffs Notes spokesperson Kelly Jo Henricks, Cliffs Notes sales are divided equally between high school and college students.
		Both Cliffs Notes and the other guides make a point to say that their guides are intended for use "as a companion to and not instead of" the books.
	dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/dfparchive/inbusiness/1108963.html (476 words)

	World's Greatest Author Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LINCOLN, Neb.– Cliff Hillegass, one of the most prolific authors in history, passed away from stroke complications in his home Saturday.
		Hillegass is generally regarded as the single most important writer the world has ever known, whose brilliant works from “Hamlet”; to “1984” touch students in junior high school and beyond, all the way up to graduate school.
		Despite his widely accepted greatness, the modest Hillegass preferred to have all of his books and plays feature identical covers: yellow with fl diagonal stripes, a mountain in the lower right corner, and the title of the work in the upper center.
	www.rail.freesite.org /cliffs.html (220 words)

	Huck Finn Cliff Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	cliffnotes.fendnotes.com /huckfinncliffnotes (1007 words)

	Local News - Cliff’s notes lasting legacy to all students
		Cliff Hillegass’ death last weekend may have gone unnoticed by millions of high school and college students, but most have had at least one occasion to read his works.
		Hillegass, who died at age 83 last Saturday at his home in Lincoln, Neb., founded Cliffs Notes in 1958, writing the first study guides in the basement of his home.
		Although teachers don’t necessarily condemn such tools as Cliffs Notes out of hand, they also emphasize the importance of the original novels and plays, if only because of the nuances in character, setting and irony.
	www.texnews.com /1998/2001/local/cliff0512.html (625 words)

	Daily Free Press Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Students everywhere are indebted to Cliff Hillegass, and they don't even know why.
		Hillegass, a salesman at the Nebraska Book Company in Lincoln, Neb., invented the infamous Cliffs Notes in 1958.
		He got the idea from a friend named Jack Cole who was doing fairly well north of the border selling a line of study guides that he called Coles Notes.
	dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/DFPArchive/inbusiness/110896i.html (133 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Founder, president of Cliffs Notes, Cliff Hillegass, dies at 83
		Founder, president of Cliffs Notes, Cliff Hillegass, dies at 83
		--> LINCOLN, Neb. - Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes, whose study guides helped generations of high school and college students through literature classes, died Saturday.
		While working for the Nebraska Book Co., he distributed it to college book stores around the country with a letter asking store managers to give it shelf space to see if it would sell.
	www.coastalbendhealth.com /2001/may/06/today/national/25332.html (137 words)

	CliffsNotes::A Brief History of CliffsNotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in a small, rural Nebraska town named Rising City, Cliff Hillegass epitomized the notion of the "self starter." Fueled by his early love of literature, Cliff was determined to go to college.
		The numerous contacts Cliff develop through his work at the bookstore were crucial to the launch of CliffsNotes many years later.
		Cliff's message for students was to use CliffsNotes to better understand literature.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/Section/id-106249.html (513 words)

	The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Day Book, May 5
		This is quite an eventful day: Napoleon Bonaparte died on this day in 1821; Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818; this is P.
		Bach’s acknowledged birthdate; and Cliff Hillegass, the inventor of Cliff Notes, died on this date in 2001 (I met Mr.
		Hillegass once—his daughter married a college friend of mine).
	theglitteringeye.com /?p=998 (400 words)

	Cliffs Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The guides synopsize and explain literary and other works in pamphlet form.
		Cliffs Notes was started by a Nebraska native named Cliff Hillegass in 1958.
		Hillegass started with booklets covering 16 William Shakespeare titles; Cliffs Notes now exist on thousands of works.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cliffs_notes (307 words)

	People Weekly: Squeeze Ploy.(Cliff Hillegass, founder of 'Cliffs Notes' study guides)(Brief Article)(Interview)@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cliff Hillegass, the harried student's star in stripes, celebrates 40 years of making long stories short
		And for students too freaked about flunking to be sure those famous lines were cribbed from Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, grabbing for the Cliffs Notes version may seem the only solution.
		When Clifton Hillegass published his first study guide 40 years ago, he could hardly have foreseen the extent to which students would come to depend on his yellow-and-fl striped booklets.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20873774&refid=ip_almanac_hf (223 words)

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