Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks on Mr. Acheson are . . . the same sort of thing that happened to Seward. President Lincoln was asked by a group of Republicans to dismiss Secretary of State Seward. He refused. So do I refuse to dismiss Acheson . . ." When he came to the final sentence, President Truman slapped the manuscript to his desk with the flat of his hand. That, said the gesture, was that...
...score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...
President Jordan will read the winning manuscript of the Christmas story contest at the all-college gathering in the Agassiz living room after the service. Judges for the contest, which closes December 11, will be Jordan, Dean Kerby-Miller, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and the 'Cliffe publicity director Joan Projansky '49. Twenty-five dollars will go to the winner...
...Before a manuscript reaches these Syndies for approval, it is first read by one or more staff members of the Press. Then at least one and maybe two opinions are obtained from scholars on the particular subject. Manuscripts that receive favorable opinions as to style and authority of content are given to the Syndics for their acceptance...
...Press does not always guess right about sales appeal. A former Wellesley instructor submitted a biographical manuscript to which she had devoted 20 years. Four big commercial publishers had already turned it down. The Press accepted it but expected few sales...