Word: lane
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...BRONTË STORY (368 pp.)-Margaret Lane-Duell-Little...
...Gaskell nonetheless worked under two handicaps: 1) a good many facts were not available to her, and 2) Charlotte's stiff-necked husband regarded her with wary distrust. Now another English novelist, named Margaret Lane, has hit upon the happy idea of interweaving long sections from Mrs. Gaskell's book with a narrative of her own which amplifies the earlier work. The result, says modest Author Lane, is "a sort of footnote to Mrs. Gaskell." It is one of the most readable, least academic footnotes ever dropped...
String Saver. As part of the anniversary celebration, the Ford family also formally opened to historians an amazing collection of personal possessions which Old Henry had gathered at Fair Lane, his huge, grey stone mansion, not far from the Rouge plant. After Mrs. Ford died in 1950, the family sent a crew of archivists to look through the memorabilia stored there. They were astounded by what they found. Some of the 55 rooms in the mansion were so crammed with clocks, rare books, cameras, music boxes, files, unpublished photographs and crates of papers that the doors could hardly be opened...
Henry Ford never threw anything away. Fair Lane's store will not only enrich future biographies of Ford; it is also a great hoard of source material on the history of the auto age. Archivists have still studied only a tiny part of the collection...
...rich storehouse of Americana at Fair Lane were the love letters of Ford to his wife, Clara, a paper boy's receipt for 45? that Ford paid him in 1894, a receipted bill for four pounds of trout (price 72?) delivered in 1906, the bill for the gasoline for his first car, letters from Presidents and crowned heads, and thousands of letters that Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested...