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...College in Westerville, Ohio, when he wrote Darling Nelly Gray, in 1856. What caused it was a boyhood memory: when he was a child, a fugitive slave stopping at his father's house had told how his sweetheart, Nelly Gray, had been sold into slavery. Hanby mailed the manuscript to a Boston publisher. The song swept the nation, sold more copies than any previous song except Foster's Old Folks at Home...
...Secrets Bill, which would make all existing censorship seem downright lax, would make it a criminal offense to "communicate, divulge or publish to any person, in whole or in part, copies or the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any file, instrument, letter, memorandum, book, pamphlet, paper, document, manuscript, map, picture, plan, record or other writing" declared secret or confidential by any department of the Government. It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote...
Entitled "The Reminiscences of Sarah Siddons," the as yet unpublished manuscript of the memories of a nineteenth century actress was acquired by the University last year, and has kept the amateurs printers busy since October. They have printed it entirely by themselves, setting the type by hand, and using a press that dates from about...
...first press conference Captain Lovette, his brown eyes snapping, dwelt chiefly on his intensely bad relations with the Japs. On his destroyer he lost the manuscript of a new book, two-thirds finished after years of work, on naval officers in U.S. diplomacy. All he saved was his sword, and even its leathery scabbard was burned...
...Baby. Dumbo is already a legend at the Disney studios. He arrived there in manuscript form (authors: Helen Aberson & Harold Pearl) in the spring of 1939. Everyone was feeling out of sorts. They had shot the works on Pinocchio and Fantasia. Disney's artists were tired of tracing blueprints for their prodigal perfectionist boss. They wanted a chance to express themselves...