Word: flyleaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest of its kind in England. Shakespeare recordings are snapped up in the town's music stores. Booksellers do a whopping business. Says one: "Everybody wants to buy an edition of Shakespeare so he can write 'Bought in Stratford-upon-Avon' on the flyleaf." The Bardolators also pay admission to Shakespeare's birthplace, to Anne Hathaway's cottage, and to the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried...
...told at the campus bookshop that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them to all the women he knew...
...victim of an automobile accident. Sharon, who had both legs in casts held straight up by overhead pulleys, was disappointed. She thought her mother had told her that "a present" was coming, not a "President." Next day, Harry Truman sent her a Mother Goose book. He wrote on the flyleaf: "Here's the present you thought you were getting. Get well in a hurry...
Founded as Davidson Academy, the school had Andrew Jackson as one of its earliest trustees; Peabody Library still preserves a biography on whose flyleaf Old Hickory scrawled a withering estimate of his biographer. But it was a damyankee merchant named George Peabody and his $2,000,000 that put Peabody on its feet. Despite this taint, most of Peabody's 1,850 students still come from the South, and President Henry Harrington Hill expects his 125-man faculty and 60,000 alumni to concentrate on Southern schools...
...week's end, a tireless friend of Greece and U.S. Ambassador in Athens since 1944 stepped into one of the planes for a quick trip to Washington. Scholarly Lincoln MacVeagh had long ago traced on the flyleaf of his well-thumbed copy of Leninism, Joseph Stalin's treatise for revolutionaries, the dictum: "It is an essential task of a victorious revolution in one country to develop and support revolution in others." MacVeagh, who speaks ancient Greek with the fluency of a contemporary of Aristides, was not really surprised by anything he had seen in Greece...