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...rejected plans for a grand, Churchillian funeral, declaring that "there won't be any big spectacle for De Gaulle." Otherwise, he devotes his days to his Memoirs of Peace. Fearing pre-publication "indiscretions," De Gaulle has insisted that only his daughter in Paris be allowed to type his manuscript-perhaps understandably. Each morning the old general listens to the 8 o'clock news, says Tournoux, then sits down to write, "almost with rage...
...BROWSE. however briefly, through the books that are there. First I noticed a manuscript by George Quester, a research fellow of the Center, former Head Tutor of the Government Department, and my section man in Gov 1b. I have two memories form my freshman year. The first is of my only date. The second is of Dr. Quester's section on Karl Marx...
...sixth child, she sometimes toppled over when lifting heavy index files in libraries, and once fainted in the British Museum. Six weeks after the birth of the child, she sat down in a little study partitioned off from her bedroom and in seven months wrote the 250,000-word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night with a note: "Mark an X where you get bored." Her neck became dislocated from the constant typing, but she remained so emotionally involved that she could weep while writing the execution scene. "I know it sounds...
Good Lesson. None of the criticism seemed to ruffle Rupert Murdoch, the hustling, young (38) Australian who last January added the News of the World to the seven papers he owns Down Under. After he and his wife Anna read Christine's manuscript, Murdoch paid ?20,000 for serialization rights, describing Christine's recounting as "a good lesson to all politicians." A frontpage story accompanying the first installment carried the justification further. Noting that "an ex-King of England" and four Prime Ministers had written their memoirs, it reasoned that "what is good for those...
Self-Educated Naturalist. Marais's reputation is likely to suffer from the publication. After 54 pages of overheated, condescending preface, Robert Ardrey bumps to a comic conclusion: "Had Marais been enabled to finish his manuscript, polish the rough parts, rethink a few conclusions, add further ideas that had come to him, then beyond all question he would have left us more than we shall find in the following pages." Too true. There is a provocative chapter on the sex life of baboons, whose customs find some resonances in human behavior. Baboons also become addicted to intoxicants, it appears...