Howard B. Gotlieb , a Boston University archivist who cajoled , charmed , wheedled and -- most effectively , he said -- groveled to snare the papers of notables like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bette Davis , not to mention Fred Astaire 's dancing shoes , died Thursday at a Boston hospital .
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