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...will compete with such books as Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe," Churchill's "The Gathering Storm," Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in The Human Male," and "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer '41 for the Gutenberg Award, to be given by the Book Manufacturer's Institute...
...President," said Chief Justice Fred Vinson, "will you raise your right hand?" Harry Truman's right hand went up, his left stretched out to rest on two Bibles: a White House copy, opened at the Sermon on the Mount, and a copy of the Gutenberg edition, opened at the Ten Commandments...
Open this week from 8:45 to 5:30 o'clock, Widener features pictures of Commencement at Harvard through three centuries, a model of the University as it stood at the turn of the century, and the Gutenberg Bible. Don't mind the men in uniform around the latter--they're really very amiable gentlemen...
Since the first visitor crossed its threshold, more than 2,500,000 have wandered along the Huntington's magnificent cactus beds, orange groves and flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
Scant effort is made by Widener Library to keep the scholar cool, but the game cannot he said for the most valuable book kept there, the Gutenberg Bible. It is currently being "rested" from the summer run in an air-conditioned safe...