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...prim side himself. Perkins bravely went to bat for his outspoken writers. Sometimes this got him into half-ridiculous situations. When he told steely old Charles Scribner II that there were only three really offensive words in one Hemingway manuscript, Scribner crisply asked which they were. Perkins could not bring himself to say; he had to write them...
...rewrote his book four times. When U.S. and British publishers continued to ignore his Union Now, he finally contracted to have the "doggone manuscript" printed at his own expense in France. In the midst of the 1938 Czech crisis, Clarence Streit's plan to save the world went into type...
...then that Harper & Bros, in New York and Jonathan Cape in London picked up earlier versions of the manuscript from Streit's agents, read them and decided that the reeling world might like to reflect on one man's suggestions for salvation. In New York and London, Union Now appeared in the bookstores and Streit's idea was launched. A modest 13,-ooo books were sold in the U.S. It was all the encouragement that Streit needed. The idealist was reborn...
Final decision on these positions will be made on May 3, Spivak announced. Deadline for manuscripts of the poems and addresses and for chorister aspirants to declare their intentions is April 25. Poems and odes are to be handed in to Theodore Morrison '23, director of English A, at Warren House; the addresses, to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, on the top floor of the Germanic Museum. A skeleton manuscript of five to seven minutes' duration should be submitted...
Harry Byrd was not on the Senate floor when Freshman Humphrey first discharged his matchlock. But last week Byrd planted himself firmly behind his desk, flipped open a manuscript on the lectern before him and fixed the upstart with a cold, stern eye. After glancing through the Congressional Record, he began, he had found at least nine major misstatements in Humphrey's 2,000-word accusation. He would proceed forthwith to set the Senate straight on the facts...