Word: manuscripts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volumes a year, plus 162,540 single copies of newspapers). Among the treasures: eight copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays; the original articles placed before King John at Runnymede in 1215; the menu for the coronation banquet of Henry IV (1399); the manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, inscribed as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day." There is also a fine collection of early Bibles, including the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus, for which the museum paid Soviet Russia ?100,000 (then about...
...Pete Verrill is not many changes of underwear away from Peter Viertel, the author of White Hunter, Black Heart, who in 1951 spent some months in the Congo as scriptwriter with the company of The African Queen, which was directed by John Huston. Viertel invited Huston to read the manuscript. Said Huston: "You can write anything you want about...
...48th annual convention of the Lithographers National Association, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen explained why he always speaks without notes or manuscript: "An old Irish lady, watching a bishop read his sermon, once asked, 'If he can't remember it, how does he expect...
...long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they also make him want to read on. Then the idea hits him: he publishes Dr. Pal's manuscript under the discreet title, Domestic Harmony...
...think much alike and set great store by each other's opinion. Milton went over Ike's memoirs, Crusade in Europe, in manuscript. When Milton moved from the presidency of Kansas State to Penn State in 1950, Ike counseled him and was on hand to help install him in his new office. Says the President: "[Milton's] breadth of experience is really quite a remarkable thing. He is at once at home with ideas and also so practical. I think I'd rather take his views than those of anyone else. He's a unique...