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...genius already exists, it stimulates it. It depends on who is sick. If it is a Nietzsche or a Dostoevsky . . ." Mann's own genius is of a plainer kind, founded on steady discipline. In writing Dr. Faustus, he averaged a little better than one page" of longhand a day, the same pace he has maintained for half a century...
...Freeman is in his air-conditioned office, reading the morning Times-Dispatch (15 minutes). Then, turning to his typewriter, he pecks out his' daily two columns of editorials. He is done by 6, takes 40 minutes for longhand revisions, then jots down a few notes for his 8 a.m. broadcast. At 6:55 he plunges into the life & times of George Washington, writing in a clear, small hand on white, unlined paper. Freeman has three synchronized clocks in his office placed to catch his eye from any position (over one of them stands the stern sign: "Time is irreplaceable...
...newspaperman Brant has plunged into source materials that professional historians have so far made little use of. His richest pickings were longhand copies of French diplomatic correspondence in the Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history...
Died. Robert Burns Mantle, 74, retired dean of Manhattan drama critics (his prestigious yearly anthology of Best Plays covers every Broadway season from 1899 to 1947); of cancer; in Forest Hills, L.I. A newspaper typesetter in 1896, Burns Mantle was once unable to decipher a critic's longhand review, wrote one of his own, went on writing reviews until he retired in 1943. A kindly observer who occasionally risked being dull in his efforts to be fair, he advised his Daily News successor that Broadway was his oyster: "Season it with a dash of salt...
...most of its 104 years, the Economist had been a financial paper for London "City men." It was Crowther who pushed the financial tables into the back pages and brilliantly widened the Economist's horizon. Its best long leaders on world problems and news, written in his own longhand, are a clear synthesis of political and economic reasoning that often echoes in Parliament. Many an M.P. would be tongue-tied if he could not say, as Anthony Eden said last week, "I saw . . . by the Economist. . . ." ("Soft underbelly of Europe" was Crowther's phrase before it was Churchill...