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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...
...Music Department, was born. To celebrate the anniversary of the man who, for forty-three years, was the embodiment and able champion of the College's musical tradition, Widener Library now has an eight-case display in its main hall. Appropriately chosen and arranged with taste, the exhibition contains holograph manuscripts, portraits, books, and original texts, many of which have been lent to the Library by Professor Paine's colleagues and friends. Of special note is a large, colorful portrait of Professor Paine by Caroline A. Cranch...
...illustrate the strength of its music collection to the Board of Visitors of the Music Department, Widener Library is opening an exhibition today of exceptionally rare and interesting manuscripts, dating from the Renaissance to the present. Forming the basis of the six-case display are a group of autographed holograph manuscripts of Beethoven, Chopin, Rubinstein, Betini, and Haydn...
...sentence in important Soviet cases must be wholly in the holograph of the presiding judge, who can thus be held personally responsible by Stalin for every word and punctuation mark. Last week Judicial Field Marshal Vasily Ulrikh, delivering the sentence of the Soviet Supreme Court upon 21 Russian civilians, read clear through his long manuscript without once looking up at any of the 18 he condemned to death,* or the three he sentenced to imprisonment.† The sentence was delivered at 4:30 a. m. and out went the three judges quickly into the dead of night...
...sprinkle of imagery, and a pinch of smut. The last condiment is easy to find despite his commendable ruse in transliterating into Greek certain English monosyllables which always arouse Mr. Dirty Mind, the true-born censor. There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight. No. 16, as it is, has quite a bounce to it, and would hardly be given the imprimatur of a really alert censor, its only quotable stanza being...