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...think much alike and set great store by each other's opinion. Milton went over Ike's memoirs, Crusade in Europe, in manuscript. When Milton moved from the presidency of Kansas State to Penn State in 1950, Ike counseled him and was on hand to help install him in his new office. Says the President: "[Milton's] breadth of experience is really quite a remarkable thing. He is at once at home with ideas and also so practical. I think I'd rather take his views than those of anyone else. He's a unique...
...London winter of 1887, a grubby manuscript fell into the mailbox of the monthly Merry England. Editor Wilfrid Meynell promptly pigeonholed it and did not look at it for six months. By then the author, a certain Francis Joseph Thompson, had disappeared. Letters addressed to him went unanswered. At last Meynell resorted to the oldest author-tracing trick of the trade: he printed one of the submitted poems, The Passion of Mary, and found his poet...
Mermin's prize, unspecified, will come from the Wilder fund. Klein will receive $500 after his manuscript has been received by the University Press...
...result of ignoring the Army's orders, Colonel Voorhees, an ex-reporter and editor on the defunct Tacoma Times, was ordered to stand trial on charges of: 1) failing to clear the book with the Army, 2) "willfully disobeying" a superior who had ordered him to withdraw the manuscript (TIME, Nov. 10). Last week, after two weeks of testimony, Reservist Voorhees was found guilty on both major counts by a seven-officer court martial. The sentence, subject to automatic review: dismissal from the Army...
...historical melodrama, the Brattle presents two French shorts. The first, called Zanzabelle, is the work of an old French puppeteer, who has a remarkable ability to place human faces on his dolls and an equally wonderful talent for amusing situation. The other short, Images Medievales, reproduces fifteenth century French manuscript illumination in striking color. The sketches are interesting, and the dubbed-in English sound track is unintentionally hilarious...