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...Novelist Esther Forbes, whose Paul Revere won the $500 Pulitzer Prize in 1943, came a gay package of Christmas goodies. A not-yet-published Forbes manuscript won the M-G-M Novel Award. It was worth $150,000 outright, and possibly $250,000 more if the book sales go well...
Last week, the manuscript from which Thackeray read was published-in facsimile -by Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library. It was a handsome $35 book, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Americans might have seen some of Thackeray's illustrations before (in the Everyman's Library edition), but the Morgan copy was in Thackeray's own neat, minuscule handwriting, and in his watercolors. Thackeray's absurdly hawk-nosed countesses, spindle-shanked kings, periwigged barons, and tubby, pimply princes looked as fresh as if he had just laid down his pen and brush upon...
...know what treasures they have, he says), pieced together unpublished cantatas, pages of which he found scattered through several countries. He once corresponded for five years with a Philadelphia dentist before getting to see a Handel letter that the dentist owned. He unearthed ten unknown Handel manuscript librettos in California's Huntington Library...
...Europe, but America and Americans always fascinated her. Four in America is an inquiry about the American soul as exemplified in four great men: Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James and George Washington. A year ago last July, a few weeks before her death, Miss Stein sent the manuscript to Yale, which has now published it in its entirety for the first time...
...club, the tension unavoidably brought out personality. A somewhat thyroid spinster from Lahore passed around the manuscript of a sex novel she had been working on. One handlebar-mustached old colonel, who had spent 40 seasons in Kashmir, refused to leave. Said he: "Good God, no! I'll just pull my houseboat over another mile or so and forget the trouble." The Hindu pianist who played an Indian version of boogie woogie at the houseboat-cabaret Bluebird had a different solution. He bought a new, heavy, imported Scotch tweed suit with heavy overcoat and tweed cap. Asked...