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...Most persistent was Mrs. Florence Hamilton, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., with whom Virgil Markham has exchanged subacid letters in the New York Times. Mrs. Hamilton not only claims that Poet Markham authorized her to write The Intellectual Biography of Edwin Markham. She also claims that she possesses the original manuscript of The Man With the Hoe. Another "original" was bought by a private dealer for $700 several years ago. Virgil Markham owns a third "original...
...followed no rigid formula. Aside from his own students, who were able to watch his deft civic surgery at first hand, few contemporaries have fully understood his method of work. To explain that method, Planner Saarinen has been writing a monumental treatise called The City. Last week the manuscript of The City was completed...
Talmadge, his manner, as always, that of a great man enduring much for the plain people, stood up, clutching a thick manuscript in one bony hand, started shouting into microphones hooked up to 13 Georgia radio stations. As always, a stooge yelled, "Take off yo' coat. Gene." Talmadge did, showing his red galluses...
Rain and the Wool-Hats. Then came an unprecedented omen. Georgia politicos say that "the sun never sets on England and the rain never falls on Talmadge." But now, as the Governor turned the first page, rain fell in torrents. Talmadge threw away his melting manuscript, improvised under an umbrella in the downpour for 20 minutes, finally gave...
...letters to Nehru's young daughter, Indira, is sometimes sententious, sometimes ostentatiously simplified, occasionally inaccurate-because it was written in jails with no libraries and, says Nehru, because "during my brief period out of prison I have not had the time" to have a "competent historian" revise the manuscript. It is also strongly leftist...