Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly got unanimous Cabinet approval for Geneva, then closeted himself with three secretaries to dictate his speech for the National Assembly. Six hours after leaving the airport, Mendès was at his place in the government front benches, thumbing a pink folder and the white sheets of his manuscript...
...faculty meeting, the historian announced the Feb. 12 publication date of his forthcoming book. Early the following morning, Turner summoned him to his office. The president had not seen a copy of the book, and bitterly complained because he had not been able to read the manuscript...
Atkinson, who terms O'Neill "America's greatest dramatist," first became acquainted with the playwright in 1920 and remained a lifelong friend. "The unpublished manuscript I know of," Atkinson explained, "is 'A Touch of the Poet', which is probably locked up in the Random House vault...
...written it all down, he told them, making sure to search out its purest, uncorrupted form; now he wanted to get it printed for a record of the Navahos among the peoples of the world. And it was not only permission he wanted-he needed money to publish the manuscript and he was turning for it to the tribe...
...when the vote came at last, the pride of the tribe (and perhaps a hope that the book would help establish a pending land claim against the Government) made it 50 to 18 for giving Father Haile permission to go ahead with his 1,203-page manuscript and giving him $30,000 to pay for it. Yazzie beamed. "I am one of you," he said. But one of the councilors put it another way: "You came to make Christians of the Navahos, but the Navahos have made a Navaho...