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Dear Mom . . . Unlike their elders, child writers waste few words. "Great stacks of books," says Smith, "have been written by people in an effort to explain why Rome fell ... yet none of them ever really arrived at a more sensible answer than that contained in a penciled manuscript unearthed in Greenwich, Conn, one day in 1948. It was the work of a nine-year-old boy and follows...
Speaking without manuscript, Nixon could draw on all of his texts to fit the occasion and the crowd's reaction, and could work in whatever local references were appropriate. But the technique also brought out, at almost every stop, some old, familiar phrases in what reporters came to call "The speech." The correspondents coined their own titles for the standard phrases, e.g., "the old shoe" for his statement that the U.S. "has prosperity and peace to boot," "the weight-lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children...
...excerpts from my diaries concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and will not be published as previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson insisted that her stillborn work "did not concern or discuss the personal life of Candidate Stevenson." To appease breathless bibliophiles, she let prying newshawks in on one fragment...
...Back-Bench Boys. Later, appointed chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Associations, i.e., the Tory Party. Rab introduced Sir Anthony Eden. Delegates waited impatiently while the Prime Minister traveled through page after page of foolscap manuscript, to survey the domestic scene. But what about Suez...
...books. After the publication of Look Homeward, Angel almost the entire population of Asheville, N.C. was eager to lynch the author. Wolfe and devoted Editor Perkins laboriously explained to one and all the writer's need to draw lis fictional people from experience. But when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged to find himself and his Scribner associates pilloried in Wolfe's savage prose. And Wolfe's own turn had come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like...