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What does the rejected author do when his manuscript thuds back to him? He still has two classic choices: 1) writing it over again, and better; 2) locking the whole thing away in his attic trunk. Nowadays a lot of would-be authors are making a third choice: they sign a contract with a publisher who specializes in would-be authors. For a few hundred dollars (and up), anybody, if he shops far enough, can have the thrill of seeing his stuff in print. He may not get much for his money -often not more than a stack of cheaply...
...brother a Navy veteran, graduated from Swarthmore last year. He achieved fame of a sort on the campus by buying a pin-ball machine and sending it off to his father after the town of Swarthmore had held a confiscatory sale. At present the machine rests quietly in the attic of 17 Quincy Street...
...that has only been three times-I have a feeling that in spite of all the pain, unpleasantness and nastiness, I have a sweet secret . . ." By her 15th birthday she had fallen in love with Peter van Daan. In the evenings she would visit him in his tiny attic, and the two adolescents would talk for hours, hold hands and occasionally kiss goodnight. Anne was not sure how to behave ("I am so longing for a kiss, the kiss that is so long in coming"), and was relieved when her father counseled restraint; In the last entries of her diary...
John B. Rehm '52 won both $100 undergraduate Bowdoin prizes in the Classics field for his translations into Latin and Attic Greek. Milman G. Parry 2G won $200 for a Greek essay, while Cecil B. Pascal 2G received Honorable Mention. Kenneth J. Reckford '54 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200, while Roland F. Perkins '52 won a $100 prize for excellence in Latin, to complete awards in the Classics field...
...Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take his mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests in her father's home by descending the front stairs in her dressing gown, her hair tumbling and her eyes staring, to announce that she had escaped from the attic, where she was kept because of her ardent and hapless love for Mr. Briscoe, the postman...