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Koppell was questioned most carefully about the authority under which he signed an agreement on March 28, 1941, acknowledging Martin's copyright to the 1941 "Let's Go." He stated that Burke was aware that Martin threatened to withhold his manuscript unless HEA agreed to acknowledge his copyright. But Koppell observed, "Mr. Burke did not order me to accept or reject Martin's conditions. He did express his concern...
...time of exercises of this agreement," Koppell repeated from his affidavit, "I was not an officer of HEA and had no authority to make any contract on behalf of the corporation...
Earlier, Burke quoted a statement from his affidavit of March 29 that although as manager of the European guide agency Koppell had "broad authority within the established policies of HEA," he "was not in any way authorised...to consent to the application for a copyright by John Martin or any other person...
Later, Burke explained that it was consistent with the policies of the HEA to hire non-Harvard students "where the occasion justifies it." "In any instance where we do not have a Harvard student available with a special skill," he noted, "we hire outsiders...
...Author Conrad regards Gulf Stream North as the completion of an "idiom trilogy" that began with Scottsboro Boy and continued with Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch in Author Conrad...