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Besides collecting campaign pins, Sugar also has an autograph collection and belongs to the Manuscript Society which numbers some 6,000 autographphiles. The more important autographs in his collection are the signature of Louis XV (on a Lettre de Cachet, instrumental in the French Revolution), the New York Yankees' baseball contracts from 1927, the signature of General Abner Doubleday, the founder of the National Game of Baseball; and the autographs of U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas Nast, and all the Presidents since William McKinley...
...lines that so characteristically turned back on themselves--which suffused the whole with a subtle, intoxicating exoticism. An important role went to a solo viola, superbly played by Jean Comstock, which expressed itself in a manner always wistful and often melancholy. Vaughan Williams inserted before each section in his manuscript brief verses from the Song of Solomon; and Schmidt hit on the bright idea of having Kenneth Costin narrate these at the appropriate spots in the music. The balance of chorus, viola and piano was kept perfect throughout. The singers were in absolutely peak form, and gave forth luscious sounds...
...Yeats who encouraged Johnston on the playwright's path. The Professor has carefully preserved the manuscript of his first Abbey play complete with Yeats' carefully written comments and corrections. Seven plays followed the first Johnston drama, "The Old Lady Says No," but the writer likes best his second play, "The Moon in Yellow River." This summer he hopes to complete another drama with a background of the Irish Revolution. Like many Irish playwrights, Johnston has a superstition which prevents talk about a play not yet published. "Irishmen feel if you talk too much about a play, there's a fair...
...Killer." With free rein to use anything he had seen or heard, Donovan submitted about 20 or 30 pages of his manuscript for standard security clearance; otherwise he showed it to no Government official. In the home stretch of his 160,000-word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn...
...prize of $2000 is given to the member of the University Faculty whose book manuscript "makes the greatest contribution to knowledge and understanding," Wilson explained...