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...major projects will take up the bulk of students' time: complete preparation of a book-length manuscript except for the actual printing, and production of a dummy for a magazine. Publishing house office conditions will be duplicated as far as possible throughout the course...
...work with the book-length manuscript, each student will in turn do the work of a first reader, and editor including correction, cutting, criticism, and copy editing. She will plan typography and format of the book and lay out advertising copy and promotion plans for her book...
...director. The staff had placed on exhibition some 256 items-the best of the treasures that Belle had bought before her retirement last December. There were the famous incunabula (the library has perhaps the best collection of these pre-16th Century books in the U.S.) and a 9th Century manuscript of the Four Gospels, written in letters of gold. The exhibition spanned centuries: notes Galileo jotted down on an old letter, the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Fulton's notes and sketches on naval torpedoes...
After General Eisenhower turned his manuscript over to Doubleday & Co., 20th-Century-Fox bought from the publishers the television rights to Crusade In Europe, asked the MARCH OF TIME to film it, and leased the film series to the American Broadcasting Co., which will telecast...
After a summer's work, he showed up in New York with the manuscript of The Unspeakable Gentleman, an amateurish historical novel which Literary Agent Carl Brandt promptly sold to the Ladies' Home Journal. Says Marquand now: "I will be goddamned if I know why I wrote it. To me it's an indecent exposure and I'm thoroughly ashamed of it." It seemed different at the time: he put his check for $2,000 in the Atlantic Bank of Boston, got a new pair of shoes and had his broken pipes repaired. Admits Marquand...