Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chaney then fiew to China in March 1948 to study the environment of the Metasequoia. Previous to this, however, the announcement of the discovery appeared in "Science" on February 6. "The manuscript of this had been seen and approved by Chaney before he hopped off to China," Merrill said...
...months ago he talked about the theater. But afterward he talked even more enthusiastically about his friend Ernest Hemingway's new novel, which he had just read while visiting the author in Cuba. To back up his claims for the book, Hayward sent a spare copy of the manuscript to LIFE'S editors. Result: this week LIFE (circ. 5,339,565) is publishing a special 20-page insert of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the first time in the memory of publishers that a U.S. magazine has ever printed a novel complete...
Models in Manuscript. Author Wecter brings to life the real models of dozens of people and incidents in Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...stocky, dedicated little artist with an iron-grey mustache and invariably dressed in traditional Bavarian leather shorts, Bickel took up wall-painting when an antique dealer gave him the job of repainting a house to make look old. In an 18th century manuscript, Bickel found a formula for fresco painting: mortar made half & half of fine sand and chalk, laid on while wet with five simple "earth" colors. Taking his style from the baroque masters (because they specialized in "free and large" art), he achieved such appealing results that he has been swamped with commissions ever since-and so have...
What does the rejected author do when his manuscript thuds back to him? He still has two classic choices: 1) writing it over again, and better; 2) locking the whole thing away in his attic trunk. Nowadays a lot of would-be authors are making a third choice: they sign a contract with a publisher who specializes in would-be authors. For a few hundred dollars (and up), anybody, if he shops far enough, can have the thrill of seeing his stuff in print. He may not get much for his money -often not more than a stack of cheaply...