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...settlement became possible only after the publisher agreed to chop out as many as 10,000 words from the 300,000-word manuscript, and Manchester consented to turn over tapes of Jackie's candid remarks to him during a ten-hour interview. The tapes will be sequestered for 100 years before anyone will be allowed to hear them...
Still, some anti-Johnson material remained. Only in recent weeks was Manchester, at the urging of his publisher, induced to modify a malicious passage that hinted at Johnson's being a violent man. In checking many sections of the manuscript, Jackie Kennedy read great chunks of it-often with considerable surprise. After reading Manchester's claim that there was an ugly feud between the Kennedy party and Johnson on the flight back to Washington from Dallas, she said: "I had no awareness that this was going on. All I could think of was my husband in that coffin...
Galbraith continues his defense by arguing that it was proper for the Kennedys to have the right to review and make deletions from Manchester's manuscript. But he does concede that the author "might have been entitled to an earlier reading by Mrs. Kennedy of the disputed passages...
Gutenberg Bibles are rare as the printings of William Caxton, the first Englishman to set his language in movable type. Both are as common as telephone books compared to a handwritten Caxton manuscript. When the Englishman's 15th century translation of the first nine books of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, a series of moralizing fables, was sold at auction in London's Sotheby's (TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page...
...work will be united with the last six Ovid books at Magdalene, but there is an ulterior motive behind the gift. Braziller, who says that his "greatest pleasure" was publishing a facsimile of an extremely rare 15th century Dutch manuscript, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, has the rights to reproduce the entire Caxton book in a limited edition of 1,000. Braziller will use the profits to pay Power back the $200,000. So two U.S. businessmen have combined to leave the Caxton work in Great Britain, yet permit the public to tuck a splendid facsimile away in libraries...