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...picture on TIME. We are very proud you chose him to be the first person in Colorado to have his picture on the cover. Mrs. Parkinson read us parts of the article. We think it was very fine. We are sorry you left out the part about manuscript writing. Mr. Iwasaki took some pictures of us writing at the board...
When he had finished, Acheson abruptly tossed his manuscript on the table with an air of relief. Nobody pushed him further. But next day his good friend, the Washington Post, summed up the statement editorially: "There is nothing in it which persuades us to change our view of either the impropriety or the unwisdom of [his first statement]. In the public interest this wretched and subordinate incident should be closed...
...Confronted with the avantgarde, the experimental and the merely obscure, Ross remarks that if he doesn't understand something, he won't print it. To help the writer "say what he is trying to say," Ross reads almost every word that goes into The New Yorker (in manuscript or proof), then types querulous, sometimes foot-long footnotes...
...pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through the city's sewers as the Germans finally closed in. The improbability of this archive, in the circumstances, is stressed by an introduction in which Author Hersey tries to establish the reality...
...find a way to beat the yellow fever. He was a good and pious, if somewhat crotchety and hypersensitive man, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and generally considered the most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting. When he tried it on a hopeless case and saw his patient recover, he used it on others, soon...