Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before his death, Tozzer completed a general study of Middle American archaeology, which has been described by his colleagues as a "monumental synthesis." He also published what is considered the outstanding English translation of the Landa manuscript, written by a Spanish bishop about...
Shepley and Blair a few months ago took on a spare-time project: editing and condensing into book form the reams of research they had compiled in their work on these previous TIME stories. When the manuscript was finished, the book publisher followed the usual procedure of offering serial rights to magazines. David Lawrence, editor of U.S. News & World Report, promptly bought the pre-publication serial rights for the readers of his magazine, and ran a condensed version of the book last week-a solid tribute to the accuracy and vitality of TIME'S reporting...
...faculty meeting, the historian announced the Feb. 12 publication date of his forthcoming book. Early the following morning, Turner summoned him to his office. The president had not seen a copy of the book, and bitterly complained because he had not been able to read the manuscript...
...readers were mostly young people just acquiring their literary education and oldsters belatedly seeking theirs, with a scattering of professional writers. The weekly ran a literate section on English grammar and word usage, carefully recommended good books, had a steady circulation of 80,000. When it rejected a manuscript, it offered a detailed criticism. Among its regular contributors: Winston Churchill, Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett, Max Beerbohm, W. Somerset Maugham. During World War II, newsprint restrictions and the exodus to the services cut John O'London's circulation to 50,000, and it never recovered. Last week its publishers...
...Ellison's task is far from finished, but already he can say that 16 medieval manuscripts from widely separated libraries belong to the same "family." They were copied from the same lost manuscript or from each other. Sometime next year, with the help of Mark IV, he hopes to have all versions of St. Luke's Gospel arranged in families...