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...anonymous narrator (a German refugee) of Anna Seghers' novel of refugee life in France had never known the late anti-Nazi Mr. Weidel. But on the spur of the moment he took the dead man's suitcase. In it he found the unfinished manuscript of one of the most brilliant novels he had ever read. One of the characters seemed strangely like himself. It was as though the young refugee was destined to complete the novel with the events of his life...
Gertrude Stein's new heroine (Mrs. Reynolds), who will not appear in the bookstores until after the war, was described by her creator as "very well-born." In New Yorker quotations from the manuscript, smuggled out of France by a Stein friend in "the front of her dress," Author Stein explained her heroine's good birth: "She was born on Tuesday and the next day was Wednesday and she was a day old on Wednesday." The novel ("more about Tuesdays than about roses") includes characters Hitler, Stalin, and Angel Harper. "When a little dog sticks himself...
...attempted to festoon the late J. P. Morgan's yacht, Corsair, with toilet paper, initiated a poll to decide whether Harvard should trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield (the motion was lost, 1,234-to-1,227), borrowed and surreptitiously published manuscript poems by Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Harvard and joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune...
Beethoven: "Jena" Symphony (Janssen Symphony, Werner Janssen conducting; Victor; 6 sides). Experts agree that this work, unearthed in manuscript in 1909, may or may not be Beethoven. One has described it as 6/8 Haydn, ⅛ Mozart, 1/16 late Beethoven and 1/16 Schubert. It sounds like agreeable, lightweight early 19th Century music, is admirably performed and recorded...
Wadsworth is also one of the University's oldest buildings. A manuscript of President Wadsworth reads: "The President's house to dwell in was raised May 24, 1726. No life was lost, no person hurt in raising it...In ye Evening, those who raised ye House had Supper in Ye Hall; after which we sang ye first stave or staff in ye 127 Psalm...