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...Marie Laforet) for a year. Philipe seems to take pleasure in torturing Tom, telling Tom that he'll return to America and Tom will get his money, while clearly having no intention of doing so. On a disastrous yachting trip on which Tom gets sunstroke, Philipe throws Marg's manuscript overboard, and Marg demands to be put ashore, it becomes clear that the tension between Philipe and Tom will soon lead to a drastic measure on one of their parts. A marooning, a stabbing, a forgery, a feigned suicide, a seduction, a framing and what seems like "the perfect crime...
...rest of her talents did not come together so readily. Hammett was crucial to her success. When she began writing plays, he typed them (in those days she was a $15-a-week manuscript reader; he was a famous author). He slaved over her first hit, The Children's Hour, giving her the plot, goading her to sharpen the language and making her exaggerated gambits more realistic. Meanwhile, his own fiction was languishing; weakened by drink and pulmonary disease, he published only one book, The Thin Man, after he met Hellman...
...They were rude...and they dismissed him. And he was furious and he was shaking...He threatened to get even." --Northwestern University professor Don Saari on ABC News, recounting Ted Kaczynksi's response to the refusal by Northwestern and the University of Illinois to publish his manuscript--five weeks before the first Unabomber attack occurred...
According to Wendorf, because of the attention, the manuscript will be on public display in the future...
Despite the fact that the manuscript has been catalogued for 22 years, Wendorf called yesterday a "momentus afternoon for American literature and American literary manuscipts...