Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late May Reves took the almost-final manuscript to Paris to check some names and dates. At the approach of the German steamroller, he fled to Bordeaux, sailed thence on a British destroyer with the manuscript. He never saw or heard from Thyssen again. After more than a year, it seemed obvious that Thyssen was a captive; for if he were free, he would have communicated with his family in South America. Alive or dead, he was, Reves decided, beyond the power of the book to hurt or help. So Reves decided to publish...
...stop with the hospitable conduct of such gatherings. He spent unlimited hours directing research and helping young scholars to get their books and papers into print, placing his own stores of learning generously at their disposal. Many a man will testify that Mr. Kittredge's minute criticism of his manuscript consitutes the best composition course he ever took...
Pleased and surprised as a child was Governor Ratner when Legionnaires gave him an ovation. To newsmen, from whom he has never hidden the fact that most of his speeches are ghostwritten, the Governor confided: "This one I did my self. I even typed the manuscript. No it." one except my wife saw it before I gave More than one man's dramatic change of heart contributed to this conversion...
...last week, spoke Manuel Avila Camacho, President of Mexico, in his opening message to Mexico's Congress. It took three hours and a half to read the speech. For two hours the President read it himself. Then he passed the bulky manuscript to his private secretary, mopped his brow, sat down to recuperate. After an hour's rest he took over once more and read...
...wispy, gentle, bespectacled little Frenchman named V. S. Crespin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1925. He set up a business importing new, old and rare books from France. One day after France's downfall André Maurois dropped in to see him with the manuscript of a new book, Tragédie en France. Of course Maurois could get it translated into English, but he would like also to publish it in the original. Then & there Crespin decided to start publishing books in French on U.S. soil...