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Picked up for $50 by a suburban Chicago manuscript collector last week: a November 1942 letter from General Dwight D. Eisenhower to his son John, then a West Point underclassman. "This is a fine command," wrote Ike of the Allied troops he was about to lead into North Africa. ''And, of course, it is every soldier's ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon. I never once dreamed that my first command would be an 'Allied' one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great...
Taking a leaf from the book of his democratic rivals, Nikita Khrushchev went before Moscow's TV cameras for a fireside chat of his own. In the bare, floodlighted studio, he seemed a little lost without an audience, speaking more slowly, peering at his manuscript, pausing often to gulp at the glass of mineral water at his side. On disarmament, on Laos, on Communism's future, what Khrushchev said added little to the world's knowledge of the Kremlin's inner thinking. But on the subject of Berlin, his voice had a new take...
Ezra Pound's claims for both Miller and Cancer were most modest. In 1934, when he handed the manuscript to its original Paris publishers, he said: "Here is a dirty book worth reading...
...weds happily roughed it with coal-oil lamps, driftwood fuel and an outdoor privy. Lowry, a barrel-chested man with piercing blue eyes, drank, swam, drank, sang bawdy Spanish ditties to his own ukulele accompaniment, and drank. When the cottage caught fire, he was badly burned rescuing the entire manuscript of Under the Volcano, which came to be the one and only literary success of Lowry's life. At his death he was drafting a massive cycle of novels to be aptly titled The Voyage That Never Ends...
...their lives in the Basilica of San Giovanni in the small northern Italian town of Monza. Just how long they worked or how many of them there were, no one knows for sure, but when they were done, the chapel walls sparkled like pages out of an illuminated manuscript (see color). There, in 40-odd glowing frescoes, was the life and legend of Queen Theodolinda, who had ruled over the Lombards some 900 years before and was still cherished in memory...