Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
...admirers find themselves deeply indebted to this quiet, unpublicized woman for Stephen Hero, a fragment of the first draft of Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. After it had been rejected by 20 different publishers, Joyce flung the 914-page manuscript into the fire. Mrs. Joyce risked her own skin to retrieve pages 519-902, now owned by the Harvard College Library...
Poring over the original manuscript in the British Museum, Musicologist Manfred F. Bukofzer of the University of California discovered that the 19th-Century historians were guilty of some careless scholarship. They had accepted 1240 because it was the date of another section of the manuscript that included Sumer is icumen in. Bukofzer pointed out that the section dated 1240 was not in the same handwriting, and hence might not have been written at the same time. He also noted that the type of musical notation in which Sumer is icumen in was written was not in use in England until...
...Translators. William Benjamin Smith, professor emeritus at Tulane, left the manuscript of this translation unrevised when he died ten years ago at 84. His friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published...
...Pacific Coast, the word of Joseph Henry Jackson* is literary law. Eastern publishers quote his reviews, publish almost any manuscript he recommends. This year his influence has swept over the Sierras with even more spectacular results than usual. Two current bestsellers are books that he plugged before publication. Joseph Pennell's turgid History of Rome Hanks (to date: 93,000 copies), and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber† (400,000 copies...