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...young authors would let a character say without irony or bitterness: "Only in the publishing business is authorship considered important." What Author Anthony Powell thinks of the publishing business is apparently symbolized by the enigmatic figure of T. T. Waring, one of those writers whose major talent is for adroit personal publicity, and who is the big purse winner in the spavined stable of literary hacks owned by the dim publishing house of Judkins & Judkins...
...evidence obtained from an electronic computer by the Scottish Rev. Andrew Morton [March 15] as to the undoubted Pauline authorship of four New Testament Epistles confirms the findings of the higher critics of the 19th century. Basing their judgment not only on literary style but on various other clues as well, they picked the same four Epistles as the only genuine ones in the 14 attributed to the Apostle Paul...
...Andrew Morton, who will publish his findings next month in a volume of New Testament studies, got his evidence from an electronic computer operated by the University of London. Until now, Morton argues, scholars could only question Paul's authorship on the basis of their personal, subjective analysis of the literary style of the Epistles, and "evidence" that convinced one scholar often left another unimpressed. Investigator Morton decided to use statistics instead of intuition...
...kinds of Fundamentalists, who take the Bible literally. "This is one in the eye for all the Bible thumpers," he says. But he argues that his study "in no way detracts from the Epistles' value as church scripture," since the churches have always accepted them, regardless of authorship, as accurate reflections of Pauline teaching...
...what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the 77 Federalist Papers that appeared in New York newspapers in 1787-88 under the byline "Publius" (the authorship of the others is known). They got funds from the Ford, Rockefeller and National Science foundations, the Office of Naval Research and Harvard's Laboratory of Social Relations, and went to work...