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...Bolton's Gal: A True Life (Harcourt Brace; 275 pages; $19.95) is such a remarkable book, for it is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two writers -- one black and unpublished, the other white and well established. Gal is also remarkable as that one-in-a-million unsolicited manuscript that actually gets published. But most impressive is the book itself...
Sixteen hours of anger, sorrow and laughter filled eight microcassettes, each smaller than a bar of motel soap. Humphreys transcribed them, suggested a . few cuts and additions, and sent nearly 300 pages north to Manhattan, where her agent, Harriet Wasserman, read the manuscript in a few hours and sold it in a matter of days. "What language! What imagery!" says Wasserman, who certainly should know. She also represents Saul Bellow...
...rare scientific manual by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has been placed on the auction block by its owner, the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The 72-page codex contains more than 300 drawings representing the artist-scholar's revolutionary ideas on astronomy and mechanics. The manuscript was purchased, amid complaints from Britain, in 1980 for $5.13 million from an English earl, and is expected to fetch an even more astronomical price this time around...
That trip came the day before the release of President Neil L. Rudenstine's 83-page report on the results of the academic planing process. The president had labored over the manuscript him self, and some--including Boston Globe columnist David L. Warsh '66--Suggested that McArthur had intentionally timed his speech to overshadow the president...
This Rudenstine was shaken by several disappointments. With a few choice words about the decline of the Business School, dean John H. McArthur successfully upstaged the unveiling of Rudenstine's treasured academic planning report. The president himself had labored for months over the manuscript...