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Since then three editors have tried to shape this mass into an orderly autobiography. The first version appeared in 1924, and by cutting out all seemingly offensive passages. Editor Albert Bigelow Paine tried to keep Mark Twain's reputation as spotless as his linen. In 1940 Bernard DeVoto published another portion of the manuscript. Now Charles Neider, novelist and essayist, gives what seems closest to the truth of the matter...
...Spell. A lower-middle-class family washes its dirty linen in public -a fine piece of domestic realism, knowingly directed by Daniel Mann, feelingly played by Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn (TIME, June...
...students who deliver for the Gordon Linen Service last night reached agreement with the directors of the Harvard Student Agencies over a pay cut they received several weeks...
...beginning of the year, the delivery boys received five cents a bundle, but this rate would have put both the linen service and the entire H.S.A. in the red. Thus, the wage was cut to four cents a bundle, incurring dissatisfaction on the part of some of the workers...
Kozol carefully jots down every sentimental object you associate with discovery. In Maine, it was "great plaid comforters and wooly blankets and white flannel sheets"; in Cambridge, it was the landlady who "did our linens for us and brought them up in a wicker basket"; in Barcelona, it was the linen and "a mountain breeze wafted the curtains into the room." The talk is violently expressive, sometimes so hysterical that lines, such...