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...dossier, sent in manuscript form to the council by Robert Denner of Color ado Springs, Colorado, lists 124 "organizations designated as (Communist front) by government investigating agencies." The agencies were not named...
Last week, ten years and one World War later, George C. Marshall once again rose to address a V.M.I, commencement. In his hand he held his same old manuscript, and once again, the same words came through the microphone. "This is a day of high emotion for you men," said Marshall. "It may also be one of the most fateful days in the history of the world . . ." After a decade of war and painful reconstruction, Marshall had seen no reason to change his warning, or to write a whole new commencement speech...
Miss Karmel's story will be printed to a forthcoming issue of Mademoiselle. She will go to New York next week in shorten her manuscript from its present 15,000 words to the 10,000 requested by the magazine...
...edge of World War I, Idaho-born Expatriate Ezra Loomis Pound, whose tentative growls had already made him one of the more notable young lions in the literary jungles of London and Paris, sent a manuscript to a Chicago publisher. In the somewhat hectic conditions prevailing for small, avant-garde publishing firms, the manuscript was lost. Not until this year was Ezra Pound's essay Patria Mia accidentally recovered-in a dusty package which had been supposed to contain only old bills. Thirty-seven years behind schedule, the publisher dutifully sent the work to the printers...
...fall day in 1946, some 300 Indians of the Oto tribe sat themselves down in a solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...