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...Referring to William Manchester's The Death of a President, you write [Dec. 23]: "25 copies of the manuscript were sent to six magazines." The fact is, seven copies were simultaneously submitted, one each to the five magazines you list and, in response to a special request, two copies to LIFE. Your report implies that this agency submitted a copy to United Artists. No copies were submitted to United Artists or any other motion picture company...
...Revue and the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende are going ahead with plans to publish the uncut original, which will certainly appear shortly thereafter in the U.S. Even so, attorneys met daily in Manhattan to work out a Look-like settlement with Harper & Row, publishers of the 300,000-word manuscript. Reporting "steady progress," they agreed to postpone until mid-January last week's scheduled hearing on whether Harper & Row should be temporarily prevented from publishing the book. If no agreement has been reached by then, the matter will go to trial. In any case, the publishers promised that...
...series of implausible events leads to the bedroom of a 17-year-old seductress with a powerful allure: the unpublished novel of an obscure ecclesiastical essayist. Adam prefers the manuscript to the girl, who presents herself to him unexpurgated and not even in a plain wrapper. It should be a funny scene, but, like most of the situations, it flags quickly...
...that point began what a member of the Kennedy family describes as "a long era of negotiations." Through its agents, the family took a closer look at Manchester's first manuscript and realized that much more was wrong than a few factual errors. Pamela Turnure Timmins, Jackie's secretary, drafted a three-page memo detailing passages that Jackie found objectionable. Bobby met with Manchester at his Senate office in Washington and at his Virginia home the following month to discuss changes. Kennedy agents told Look that they had to approve the articles, but Look rejected the suggested changes...
...writing was as impeded as his health. Publishers recoiled from the ferocity and strangeness of his work. Printers refused to set his more gamy passages in type. The husband of one of Joyce's typists was so outraged by the manuscript of Ulysses that he set it on fire. Joyce, in turn, railed against the narrowness of the "chaste and castrated English-speaking world...