Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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Entitled "The Reminiscences of Sarah Siddons," the as yet unpublished manuscript of the memories of a nineteenth century actress was acquired by the University last year, and has kept the amateurs printers busy since October.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...
...Revel Syndicate, a literary agency, he received manuscripts (at a "marketing fee" of $4 to $7), praised them, shelved them for 30 days. As one of four presses (the Minerva, the Prometheus, the Pegasus, the Psychology), he then described himself as nibbling; and shelved the manuscript for another 30 days. At that point the house of Fortuny was foaming to print and sell the book, if only the author would come across with "part of" the manufacturing costs. The Fortuny contract promised the author 20% royalties on the first 3,000 copies sold, 50% thereafter. For some, there were extras...