Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephone conversation from his Island home, Chazen said he spent a weekend in Cambridge last November helping Christopher R. Seppala '63 Adam '62 complete the guidebook's text just before deadline. For was given roughly a one-quarter of the $750 the HSA paid for the manuscript...
Koppell added that Marlin agreed to deliver the manuscript February 1 but withheld delivery until the end of March. At this time, Koppell reported, Marlin said he would not turn over copy unless Koppell signed the agreement, which he did "so that the guide could be published in time for distribution for the summer season...
...recent victim was Author Michael Naritsa, 53, who suffered exile and imprisonment under Stalin, began asking for trouble again in 1960 when he smuggled his latest novel, The Unsung Song, out of the country by unorthodox means: unable to contact a foreign publisher, he bundled up his manuscript, attached to it a labeled plea in four languages (see cut}, and thrust it into the hands of two surprised West German tourists who were strolling down a Leningrad street. The tourists got it published abroad, and Naritsa got a visitation from the agents of the Committee of State Security...
...these lapses are understandable after all-Fleming is not the author. As he archly explains in a foreword, he found the manuscript on his desk one morning-"the first-person story of a young woman, evidently beautiful and not unskilled in the arts of love," who was involved "both perilously and romantically with the same James Bond whose secret-service exploits I myself have written from time to time...
...revolution against Pala's benevolent philosopher rulers, and "the work of 100 years is destroyed in a single night." Island, the work of nine years, was also nearly destroyed in a single night in the recent Hollywood fires, when Huxley's house burned to the ground. The manuscript was one of the few things saved...