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...Adams Papers, edited by L. H. Butterfield. The first four volumes of a projected 100-volume collection of the diaries, memoirs and letters of a remarkable family of statesmen reveal the U.S.'s second President, John Adams, as a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who could fight for rebellion against England, shape the Declaration of Independence, and tangle with the most sophisticated minds in Europe-yet always find time to investigate local farming methods...
...these insights into public life are dividends, said Butterfield...
Still another series of The Adams Papers, according to Lyman Butterfield, lecturer on History and Editor of the series, is now in active production. This is the Adams Family Correspondence, running continuously from the courtship letters of John Abegail Adams in 1762 to the death in 1989 of another Abigail, the wife of Charles Francis Adams. The family correspondence is expected to run to some 20 volumes...
...when they were turned over to the Massachusetts Historical Society. TIME Inc. contributed $250,000 to the project of editing the works, which turned out to cover more than five miles of microfilm. After six years of study, a team of scholars under American History Authority L. H. Butterfield begins publication with four volumes that contain the diary and autobiography of John Adams...
...cute idea-maybe too cute. But the screenplay, worked up by Arthur Sheek-man and William Driskill from a novel (Ada Dallas) by Wirt Williams, develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend...