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Moneyed Man. After college Fadiman taught high-school English (1925-27), then became a manuscript reader for Simon & Schuster, book publishers. Soon he was editor-in-chief. In 1933, still hanging on to an S & S editorial job, he joined the New Yorker. Naturally a fast reader, he became even faster after zipping through Walter B. Pitkin's The Art of Rapid Reading. By wolfing his fact and fiction, he had time left for a score or more of profitable extracurricular ventures...
...Olmstead, who held that the Gospels were written in an Aramaic dialect of Jesus' time, and were later translated into Greek. Goodspeed maintains they were originally written in Greek. One of Goodspeed's greatest thrills came in 1927 when he found a rare 13th-century New Testament manuscript in a Parisian antique shop. He got the late rich Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick to buy it for him ($25,000), then he edited the three volumes, called it the Rockefeller McCormick New Testament...
...actor earn his pay if he has not memorized his part? When The Petrified Forest was revived last month in Cleveland, Eddie Dowling (Shadow and Substance, The Time of Your Life) played the leading role. For four nights keen-eyed playgoers caught the actor nonchalantly reading his lines from manuscript...
...weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle composed entirely of chance conversations on the Bowery and elsewhere. He has been working-on it ever since. The unfinished manuscript (the fruit of more than 20,000 conversations) contains 9,000,000 words in longhand, is eleven times wordier than the Bible. So far no publisher has nibbled...
...rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island. He asked Lillian to visit him, told her he wanted to write her a specially beautiful number. A few days later he took a dose of Paris green and died. In his overcoat pocket was found the manuscript of Come Down, My Evenin' Star...