Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning out a new couplet...
Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 34, offered an explanation of why she did not invite her two daughters, Linda, 13, and Ellen, 9, to the wedding when she remarried the girls' father, bestselling, globetrotting Author Vincent Sheean, 50, in London, four years after their divorce: "It's so difficult to have children around at a time like this...
...library has its historical curios: among them, Harvard's first character (1650), the one surviving book from John Harvard's library, and Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its "author" collections. Quite a number of books are on view. (behind glass) in the Library's lobby or in the lavish exhibition room...
...Author collections may contain anything, from a writer's first editions to his private diary--letters, manuscripts, and critical works about him. Houghton's most famous is the Keats' collection, the world's best, much of which is one exhibit in the Library's special Keats room. The collection has many of the poet's letters and the manuscripts of a number of his poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature...
Once the plot of "Intruder in the Dust" has been separated from Mr. Faulkner's unique prose style, its characters are found sadly lacking in fullness. The author's writing was frequently so confusing as to give the story an additional element of mystery and suspense it would not otherwise have...