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...Flyleaf. In Columbus. Ohio, a thief broke into the office of the Northminster Presbyterian Church, pocketed $10.40 from a desk drawer, left a note: "God Bliss You. I'm Sorry But The World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...business, when she was a fledgling literary agent for Brandt & Kirkpatrick (now Brandt & Brandt). Of his feelings at the time, he says laconically: "I suppose sex entered into it. After all, what's a woman for?" But in dedicating Son of Perdition, Cozzens was more gallant. The flyleaf is inscribed to her with these lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Outliving her beauty's outward, with a mind/ That doth renew swifter than blood decays." Cozzens recalls: "Mother almost died when I married a Jew, but later when she saw I was being decently cared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Hallo, Mary!" Publication of Shaw's iconoclastic parable, The Black Girl in Search of God, temporarily broke the friendship between the nun and the old man, though he insisted to her that it was directly inspired by God and wrote on the flyleaf of the proof sheets he sent her: "An Inspiration which came in response to the prayers of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brother Bernardo | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Bozell and Buckley claim that this is the first exhaustive exposition of McCarthyism, and document evidence to confirm their support of McCarthy. On the flyleaf they issue a challenge for auti-McCarthyittee to disprove the book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buckley Revives Charges Against Shapley | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

...Algonquin Indians by the Rev. John Eliot). ¶ The so-called "Jefferson Bible," a red morocco-bound copybook, in which Jefferson, a deist, pasted the words of Jesus as clipped from Bible texts. ¶ President Truman's inauguration Bible, in which he noted in ink on the flyleaf: "There was much scurrying around to find this book on which to take the oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 500th Birthday | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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