Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of giving biographees a chance to defend themselves publicly came to Look's Editor Harlan Logan when he bought a manuscript from Reporter-Author Leland Stowe titled Roy Howard, Newspaper Napoleon. Logan sent it to Scripps-Howard's Howard for checking, got it back with marginal notes that disagreed with Stowe on several points. One Howard comment: "Napoleon, huh? Nap was a little runt and I'm nearly 5 feet 7 inches! He had a cowlick and I still have a pompadour...
...they have come across the original of this letter in their belongings. The explanation of this is that in 1936 a well known bank in Richmond had a printing firm reproduce this letter in such a form as to make it appear as if it were an original old manuscript. . . . These aged-looking copies were then sent by this bank to their customers in order to promote a loan plan. . . . The copies were so well done that they could fool an inexperienced observer. . . . This bank did not have permission from us to use this letter commercially...
...Dewey appeared on the platform, from the cool, little room below the speakers' stand. He looked cool and calm, obviously happy. He waved, brought his wife forward to share the ovation, waved again, shook hands with John Bricker. Calmly, efficiently, he took quick stock of the microphones, the manuscript-holder, the clock. He did not encourage any demonstration, but the crowd roared...
...firmer Archivist of Colonial Williamsburg and now a member of the Library of Congress staff. Mrs. Bullock is utilizing in her work the results of the unique union catalog of Jefferson correspondence maintained by the University of Virginia Library. She has succeeded in dating or completely identifying dozens of manuscript items which previously had been imperfectly understood. When completed, the catalog of the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress will contain more than 23,000 entries...
...anonymous narrator (a German refugee) of Anna Seghers' novel of refugee life in France had never known the late anti-Nazi Mr. Weidel. But on the spur of the moment he took the dead man's suitcase. In it he found the unfinished manuscript of one of the most brilliant novels he had ever read. One of the characters seemed strangely like himself. It was as though the young refugee was destined to complete the novel with the events of his life...