Word: manuscript
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Wilson's biography, by contrast, offers a straightforward, scholarly account of the cellist's life. Barenboim not only urged Wilson, a family friend, to write the book but also shared his papers with her and even read her manuscript before it was published. Drawing on scores of interviews with people who knew Du Pre, Wilson tracks her career and scrupulously reconstructs all her performances. But the author doesn't completely shy away from salacious matters. She mentions the affair and notes that Du Pre also felt abandoned by Barenboim, who cared for her when she was ill but, during...
EUREKA! A millennium-old manuscript, below, the oldest copy of a work by Greek mathematician Archimedes, sold last week at auction for $2.2 million. Works from other scientists also did well...
...nice, tidy little scandal. You'd pick up the morning paper buoyed by the knowledge that you were almost certain to find some embarrassing revelation--maybe some weasel words from the publishing house that had given assurances of the manuscript's authenticity--but that little harm could come of it all beyond a couple of years in the pokey for Irving. Even if there had been cable-news channels then, none of them would have had a format that could have been described as "all Clifford, all the time...
...Bible and a grandfather's scrapbook. They led her to a quiet cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. "It turns out," she says, "that I'm related to about three-fourths of the people buried there." Now a professional genealogist, Shaw photocopied local census records and created a 500-page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates that her still incomplete family database has the names of 11,000 relatives. Heiss, who has taught genealogy classes...
...graver worries. Despite his measure of fame, Laudor had not been able to find work teaching law. Friends say the finely calibrated, constantly adjusted medication he took may have ceased to be effective. Others speculate that the attempt to contain his life with enough lucidity to work on a manuscript due in August placed extreme pressure on the perfectionistic Laudor, perhaps to the extent that he stopped taking his medicine. A publishing insider who saw Laudor's book proposal said it was written with "an almost mathematical use of language." It was an intensely emotional tribute to his father...