Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the delegates were their aides, and behind them secretaries and short hand reporters. After Joy spoke, always from a manuscript, an interpreter repeated his remarks in Korean, a short paragraph at a time. Nam's words were translated into both English and Chinese for the comrades from behind the Yalu...
Some boys got as far as the U.S. One worked his way across the Atlantic as a paint boy on a ship, traveled from New Orleans to Chicago, returned with a manuscript for a full-length book. Another boy cycled from Ontario to California, making his way by giving radio interviews. He was attacked by a bull, sideswiped by a car; he witnessed eight automobile accidents and saw a man shoot his wife in the streets of Reno...
...dusty shelf in the Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass., Librarian Lawrence Wikander came across a long-forgotten, unopened box with a 1,821-page manuscript, sent up by Calvin Coolidge the day before he left the White House in 1929. It was the stenographic record of his twice-weekly tilting with reporters in press conference.*Sample bout: on Dec. 11, 1928, he outlined-his plans to attend the dedication of the carillon at the Edward Bok bird sanctuary in Florida. To one reporter, unable to understand the plans for the bell tower, Coolidge snapped: "Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary...
...spring of 1938, just after he had delivered 1,200,000 words of manuscript* to his publisher, Wolfe headed for the Pacific Northwest, the only part of the U.S. he had never seen. In Portland, Ore., he met a newspaperman who was about to start on a high-speed tour of the Western national parks. The American Automobile Association was paying expenses and providing a white-painted Ford for the junket. When Wolfe was invited to go along, he jumped at the chance...
...Between today-the day on which this manuscript is being smuggled out of here-and the day on which the book finally appears in print, many things . . . will have happened." Many things have indeed happened since that day in 1944 when tough, austere Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of Norway, wrote those words in the small cottage where he was kept in solitary confinement by the Quisling government. But what has happened has only underlined the timeliness of the English translation of his book which is published this week, Man and State (Muhlenberg Press...