Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President of the U.S. sat down gravely in a straight-backed, upholstered chair in a Moscow television studio one night last week. He placed a manuscript on the oval table before him, and on signal, began to read to a Soviet Union television and radio audience of millions the most remarkable speech they had ever heard from a foreigner...
...caught four young cannibals after their tribe had defeated another (with axes and knives made of human bones) and feasted on the losers. Police handed the cannibals over to the mission for rehabilitation. Under the tutelage of Los Angeles Mission Teacher Frances Dills, 50, the author of an unpublished manuscript, My Caddy Is a Cannibal, the boys reformed, learned manners, and, says she, "they are probably the only cannibals in the world who speak pidgin with an American accent...
...judge from the wares on the bookstore counters, anyone with a manuscript on his hands can find a publisher these days. Yet every year produces thousands of would-be writers whose work is so dreadful that even the most tolerant publishing firms will not put it in print. For these devotees of letters wait the "vanity presses," which print almost anything-at fees from the authors ranging between about $900 and $6,000. While there is nothing illegal in paying for the pleasure of seeing one's words in print, the Federal Trade Commission objects to vanity publishers...
...bluenoses when he pretended to deny it. But the great gaiety of the work, and the sharpness with which Petronius satirizes esthetes, pedants, bad poets, the nouveau riche and the rapacious poor, lift this gutter odyssey well above the merely pornographic. The fragment that remains of the original huge manuscript is a mixture of prose, poetry and puns, fustian rhetoric and sweaty argot...
Early in 1924 in Paris, Harold Loeb was the proud possessor of: 1) a little magazine with big pages called Broom; 2) a mistress; 3) the manuscript of a novel, soon to be accepted with the publisher's proviso that Loeb put back all the "a's" and "the's" he had deliberately left out; and 4) the friendship of a fledgling expatriate writer, amateur boxer and soso tennis player named Ernest Hemingway, who dubbed Loeb "one of the better guys of all time." By the end of the fiesta at Pamplona, Spain in the summer...