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...Harvard Law School and still a dean among U.S. legal scholars, at a Brooklyn Bar Association meeting last week. His answer: not only is a law of the world possible, but it will probably precede any sort of sense-making world state. Tossing aside his 7,000-word manuscript, Dean Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control, he said, the law has gone through four stages of development: 1) the strict...
...known book, The Unfound Phrase, Dery expounded his own political philosophy in the fictional terms of a wealthy Budapest lawyer who turned to Communism as his nation's only hope. Too incendiary for publication in the days of the prewar Horthy fascist dictatorship, it was circulated widely in manuscript before going to press ten years later...
Russell really couldn't. He mumbled something about "it was handed down to me," and several times drew a thick manuscript from his pocket, offering to read pertinent passages from it. Beer stopped him, asking why he had gone into politics...
Marquand admitted that his early years as a professional writer were a difficult period. "When my publisher first read the manuscript of The Late George Apley," he related, "he turned pale and suggested that it be written under a nom de plume...
...arrested again." Sinclair fought John D. Rockefeller Jr. by picketing his Wall Street offices in crape. He bugled for milk, vegetarianism, Prohibition. Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet even a New York Socialist leader said: "Sinclair is an ass." And he never really wrote very well. After a rejected manuscript, according to one anecdote, Mary said sadly: "Why can't you seem to use the right words...