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Alice was about to move in with a new family. The famed Lewis Carroll Wonderland manuscript, whose sale at public auction in 1928 set a new manuscript high ($75,259), will be auctioned for the second time next fortnight in Manhattan. Alice lived for 65 years with the real-life Alice (the late Alice Pleasance Har-greaves), then went at auction to Bookman Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, who shortly sold her to Victor Talking Machine Co. Founder Eldridge R. Johnson, who died last November...
Specifically assailing the present gagging of distinguished American scientists and the innuendoes from military sources that men of science cannot be trusted with matters of real secrecy. Shapley pointed to a recent radio broadcast of his in which he was required to submit his manuscript for censorship...
Conclusion: "The manuscript, the roll, the tablet [precursors of books] have often come through centuries. . . . The book and the library have been respected and safeguarded, even in war, as the very corporate mind of society. In 1939, society . . . turned upon itself and deliberately strove to destroy . . . that mind. It succeeded in a large measure...
...library. To Sibley, the "excitement" about the proposed building was "a great strain on my nerves." There was much more than "strain" connected with the "Titanic" tragedy which caused the death of Harry Elkins Widener, from whom the University received a valuable book and manuscript collection. His gift contained the stipulation that a suitable building be provide, whereupon his mother donated the columned hall. In comparison to this, the $1,500,000 gift of Thomas W. Lamont '92 was revealed in a casual note. And to this, with the same manipulation of zeros, another $1,500,000 will be added...
...effect was instantaneous and evidently deep. The packed galleries and M.P.s of all parties roundly cheered Ernie Bevin. Keen, young Michael Foot, Labor's most pungent pamphleteer, who had also been up all night preparing a blast at Bevin, tore up his manuscript.* Laborites, Tories, Liberals were apparently of one mind: this way lay hope, at least, for a world afraid of blowing itself to smithereens. The British press showed no excitement...