Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Anne Kaufman, 22, daughter of Playwright George (The Man Who Came to Dinner) Kaufman; and Bruce D. Colen, 23, manuscript reader for Publishers Simon & Schuster; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bucks County...
...both the new and the old was well demonstrated by Wednesday's concert which included an original student work and an ancient suite by Purcell. The suite, a selection from "The Virtuous Wife," is as faithful a standby as its title would suggest, and was unearthed from a manuscript in the British Museum by Conductor Malcolm Holmes. Other little-known works brought to light in the past have been "The Blessed Damosel" and "Variation on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,'" the last-named written especially for the Orchestra. But despite its penchant for straying off the beaten soundtrack, the Sodality...
...little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. All were written in contemporary French . . . which . . . certainly . . . made it easier for [the purchaser] to read them. . . . Lucas was on the point of selling him the original manuscript-in French-of the Sermon on the Mount . . . when he was unmasked...
Edward J. Flynn was joining the immortals. To a Manhattan publisher from the onetime Democratic national chairman went the manuscript of his memoirs, nostalgically titled: You're the Boss...
...mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian to be chosen. The Guild's first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers $93,000 to be split 50-50. Reynal & Hitchcock have increased their own first edition...