Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven such people--and for the age that was waiting before--the Harvard Stadium was constructed...
Alexandra Dumas (The Three Musketeers), who published some 1,200 books over his own name (he ran the first ghostwriting factory), seemed to be not quite all published yet. Turned up in Paris: the manuscript of an unpublished novel (The Red Sphinx) about Cardinal Richelieu...
...girl loudly touted as an authoress before she began writing her first book-something sexy about a girl named Flamingo Duval (TIME, April 1)-nearly had to start her career all over again at the age of 19. She 1) finished the book, 2) lost 16 chapters of the manuscript. They turned up a few days later in one of the very best restaurants...
Alice was about to move in with a new family. The famed Lewis Carroll Wonderland manuscript, whose sale at public auction in 1928 set a new manuscript high ($75,259), will be auctioned for the second time next fortnight in Manhattan. Alice lived for 65 years with the real-life Alice (the late Alice Pleasance Har-greaves), then went at auction to Bookman Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, who shortly sold her to Victor Talking Machine Co. Founder Eldridge R. Johnson, who died last November...
...Francisco, he wrote a 50,000-word Biblical novel called The Emperor's Physician and read it, a chapter at a time, to his congregation. With the beginning of World War II and the growing audience for books with a Christian theme, Author Perkins resurrected the manuscript, rewrote and expanded it, got it published. The People's Book Club (operated by Sears, Roebuck) selected it for Christmas 1944, plugged its sales to nearly 250,000 copies...