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Last summer, at Château La Cröe, his Riviera villa, the Duke set to work. In longhand, in red ink (he likes red ink), he wrote 50,000 words while his four raucous cairn terriers, tied to his table, kept him company. An un-raucous LIFE editor also attended him to make suggestions and keep reminding the Duke that the early life of a prince was not, as he kept tending to think, just like everyone else...
...proved his judgment and her own competence. She saw the ceremony, hurried back to Fleet Street in a Standard car. Cool and unhurried as a good rewrite-man, she filled short sheets of copy paper in longhand which were snatched away for typing and setting. In a few sentences, she caught the mood of a memorable day: "It might seem folly to have a royal wedding in winter, but it was wise enough. The people are tired of sadness, they need a party; they are tired of hate, they need to think of love; they are tired of evil, they...
Hammerstein regards writing as hard labor. He works peripatetically (he has been called one of the greatest pacers of his time), and writes in longhand; he explains that if he typed, the stuff would look so neat that he would not have the heart to change anything. He claims that his vocabulary is small and that words do not come easily to him ("The man I really envy is Winston Churchill"). He is a fanatical craftsman...
...Trick-Shot Artist." Back in the witness chair, Airman Hughes took off again. In scrawling longhand he had written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...
...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...