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...deaf that he could study unconcerned while the University band umpahed on the same floor of Hendrie Hall and the Glee Club bellowed "Bulldog" directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best in a changeable, stimulating climate. The professor, 71, an authority on practically everything concerning the human species, died last week...
...roomy Security Council chamber, more than 300 reporters, delegates and hangers-on awaited him. Wearing a grey suit and a shiny celluloid collar, Vishinsky posed briefly for photographers. Then began a turbulent 2½-hour press conference. While the bored reporters squirmed, Vishinsky read a ten-page manuscript. Vishinsky's Russian was crisp and emphatic; he seemed annoyed at the interpreter's colorless, halting rendition. The statement was a fingerpointing, arm-waving rehash of his attack on U.S. "warmongers" (TIME, Sept. 29). This time, Vishinsky proposed that the "warmongers" should be jailed. He also added three more candidates...
Most of the attendant scholars were already familiar with some of the 18,350 pieces of personal and official mail, manuscript and memoranda. Much of the material has been referred to and quoted in the works of Lincoln's two secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Later it became the source material of innumerable books by other authors. But it would be a rich mine of Lincolniana. Few collections have led so closely guarded an existence...
Hidden Papers. When he died in 1795, Boswell left over a million words of manuscript in a huge iron chest at Auchinleck Castle, the family seat in Scotland. His respectable heirs decided that Boswell had embarrassed the family enough during his lifetime, and kept his papers hidden. Eventually the papers moved, with Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Malahide Castle in Ireland. Famed U.S. collector Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach cabled Lord Talbot an offer of $250,000 for the Malahide Papers. Said Lord Talbot: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond...
...Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This "unique document," said Adrian cryptically, would "explode the old myths" about Sir Arthur and his great gumshoe...