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...accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last January, his friends found the great orator from Idaho far from impressive. The trouble was, he thought, that he had to pause too often to consult his manuscript. To Youngstown he went with no manuscript. For 80 minutes he spoke extemporaneously. Those who went to hear him in the expectation of being deeply stirred by the fervor of his words, left Stambaugh Auditorium inexplicably disappointed...
Besides the pictures the show contains an elaborate reliquary. In it are original letters, books from Gauguin's lean library, tattered scrapbooks dedicated to his daughter Aline and a facsimile of the manuscript of his autobiography, Noa Noa, decorated with 40 pages of water colors and wood engravings in his own hand...
...manuscript of a Jew-baiting orator...
...society. Because he was also a writer of talent and because he turned his admiring passion to such good account, he wrote what is still the world's best-known biography (The Life of Samuel Johnson). Like all literary men Boswell left behind him quantities of manuscript and unpublished writing. Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From one respectable generation to another Boswell's manuscripts mouldered, first in Auchinleck Castle, then in Malahide Castle, Ireland...
...great thing of initials in their speech and the "P. M." (Prime Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript and observed a marginal note by the Prime Minister, ''Refer again...