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...Translators. William Benjamin Smith, professor emeritus at Tulane, left the manuscript of this translation unrevised when he died ten years ago at 84. His friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published...
...Scribner Editor Maxwell Perkins once discovered a four-letter word in a Hemingway manuscript, showed it to the late Publisher Charles Scribner. "Remember," he said, "that we're forbidden by contract to change a word [of Hemingway]." "Dear, dear." said Mr. Scribner, "we will have to discuss this fully when I return from lunch." Then he vaguely jotted down the word on a pad headed: "What To Do Today...
...watercolor sketches of period houses, furniture, costumes. The actual writing, which ran to six complete drafts for a total of nearly two and a half million words, took in a lot of territory; after her husband joined the Marines, Kathleen followed him from camp to camp, lugging her swelling manuscript. Finally, after five years' labor of love, she sent Forever Amber to Macmillan's. To Author Winsor for her first novel Macmillan's sent a staggering advance royalty...
...fine stylist, but he writes mostly about a fairly remote past and has not identified himself with the war. He is now somewhat disliked by a few younger writers for his pomposity and his airs; he is something of an eccentric - writes standing up, for instance, with his manuscript on an inclined chest-high table, like a speaker's rostrum...
...very fit.* He ate heartily, drank only half of his glass of California sauterne, and sat thoughtfully oversmoking through the banquet. For the benefit of the Teamsters, the band played Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream, while Franklin Roosevelt made penciled notes on his manuscript. Then it was time to go on the air, before the millions of citizens who were also asking: Has he still...