Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What's the use? If you don't have a big name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn...
...last week Anderson Baten had finished writing into his 1,500,000 word Complete Dictionary every last scrap of information about Shakespeare he could lay his hands on. Then he journeyed North to deliver the final section of his bulky manuscript to his publishers, John C. Winston Co. of Philadelphia (Winston Simplified Dictionary). Until he sent them the first part five months ago, they did not know he was writing the Shakespeare dictionary. But last week Lexicographer William Dodge Lewis, editor of the Winston company, was sure that it was "one of the monumental works of all time...
...Clements, 73, famed collector of early Americana and first citizen of Bay City, Mich.; in Bay City. Son of an enterprising steel manufacturer, he took over and ably expanded his father's business, retired a rich man in 1924. Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American...
Last week President Roosevelt gave the nation another of his Sunday night radio "fireside" chats, his first since June. None of the other five was more important to him and his listeners than this one. To give his manuscript a final polish he took Secretary Morgenthau and Relief Administrator Hopkins for a Sunday cruise down the Potomac...
...time aviation literature with War Birds, which ran serially for three months in Liberty and later became a best-selling book. War Birds was supposedly the diary of an unknown U. S. aviator, but few literary wiseacres believed that Mr. Springs did nothing more than edit the manuscript. Mr. Springs has a private airport on his estate at Fort Mill, plays a crack game of tennis, lists on his letterhead some 25 goods & services-including cotton sheets, airplane transportation, short stories-which he will supply...