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...strange, apparently autobiographical account of a bout of hallucination and irrationality, titled The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (TIME, Aug. 12, 1957), and in 1960, he published the biography of Britain's late, literary Msgr. Ronald Knox. But the third book was only waiting. "He took the pile of manuscript, his unfinished novel, from the drawer and glanced through it," he wrote on the last page of Pinfold. "The story was still clear in his mind. He knew what had to be done...
...occasion, her imagination goes splendidly mad. Mocking the Age of Publicity in an essay which notes that Where writers write has become almost as important as What they write (Thomas Wolfe scratched out his manuscripts on refrigerator tops; Jean Kerr worked in the front seat of her Chevrolet), Lamport tops them all with Elihu Linot, who always wrote on the backs of women, starting at the neck and working down. Once his editor eloped with the manuscript. There was no carbon...
...Smith '43, writes of a time he knows; he is currently completing a dissertation for a Harvard Ph.D. about an unpublished Elizabethan manuscript...
...unabashedly just as concerned with soaking up publicity as with soaking down her house. Her $200,000 manse survived unharmed, as did the nearby rented quarters of the Richard M. Nixons. But at the height of the fire the former Vice President, not taking any chances, first evacuated the manuscript of his memoirs and a taped account of his Moscow "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev, later hustled back with Wife Pat to retrieve some personal possessions. Sighed Nixon after the event: "I have seen trouble all over the world, but nothing like this...
...Realities in Amber. Like Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the ancestor of most German philosophical novels, The Demons is a search for reality. The title refers to a medieval manuscript-discovered in the course of the story and included in toto-that implies that each man's demon is a second, obsessive, false reality, which he must learn to discard or to unify with his true self...