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When the British Government acquired the Codex Sinaiticus, famed Fourth Century Bible manuscript, from the Soviet Government, it announced that if the public contributed half the ?100,000 ($511,250) purchase price the Government would do the rest (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Laborites in Parliament raised a mighty squawk, when they heard that the Codex had already arrived in London and the money paid over. It looked as though the Government was saddled with the expense, whether or no. But last week the Laborites were mollified when the Archbishop of Canterbury announced that the public had contributed its full...
...This manuscript has not been written for publication. I merely want to make the material herein presented available to a few friends in the hope that it may be of help to them in their own writing. You are welcome to use any or all of it in any way that you see fit. ... "Last summer I asked some of the [Brain Trusters] what their concrete plan was for bringing on the proposed overthrow of the established American social order. "I was told that they believed that by thwarting our then evident recovery they would be able to prolong...
...When I finally settled down to completing the manuscript I did not bother de Kruif. ... I undertook a series of expeditions in search of first hand material. My first objective naturally was Dr. Aristides Agramonte, the single surviving member of the Reed Commission. I wrote him. ... On the morning after I had written, the New York Times published the announcement of his death. . . . "The play is to be considered a celebration rather than a representation. I have called it 'Yellow Jack - a History.' The subtitle is pretentious and I have used it in the hope that it will...
...other morning an advanced student in English Literature had handed a piece of his work to Professor John Livingston Lowes. The Professor became deeply engrossed in the composition; but suddenly remembering that he had a luncheon engagement, he looked up from the manuscript to ask, "What time...
Readers of the first installment were prepared by an editorial note for "inconsistencies in punctuation and spelling which appeared in the original manuscript, intended by Dickens only for the eyes of his children and not for the printer." What they were not prepared for was the anti-Fundamentalist credo in the second paragraph...