Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservatively as Adam Smith," said one of his superiors. 'While there, he published his Harvard thesis, The French International Accounts 1880-1913, in book form. Its most interesting lines are in the acknowledgments. There is one to Dr. L. (for Lauchlin) B. (for Bernard) Currie, who read the manuscript, and one to Dr. A. (for Abraham) G. (for George) Silverman, who clarified certain points. Both Currie and Silverman later were linked with White in testimony about espionage rings...
...high government officials, and went to an R.C.A.F. officers' party in DuPre's honor. "Everyone was delighted," says Reynolds, "that at last DuPre was to get recognition outside of Canada." Even though R.C.A.F. officers spoke glowingly of DuPre's war record, Reynolds says, he submitted his manuscript to the tight-lipped British Intelligence, was told they would not even look at it, since as a matter of policy they never give clearance. At the end of the story, DuPre signed his name to the statement: "[This] is my factual story exactly as I told it to Quentin...
...Plan of the week : a Pope Pius XII memorial library, containing in microfilm the 50,000 manuscript volumes of the Vatican, to be built at a cost of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 on the campus of St. Louis University...
...hardly be popular reading. But in suburban Brookline, Mass. (pop. 57,589), a good number of parents are thumbing it through-and all are doing so with a purpose. Last week they were collecting ammunition for the hottest school battle of the year. Their target: the exclusive teaching of manuscript printing in Brookline's public grade schools...
...they also queried other communities throughout Massachusetts. Their conclusions: "If they were free to speak, 90% of the teachers would be on our side." Nonsense, said Superintendent Caverly. "Speaking conservatively, I would say that 90% of all teachers-up to and including those in the high schools-would favor manuscript printing...