Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen, the old orator who can still draw a crowd to the Senate, arrived looking uncharacteristically well-pressed in a blue worsted suit. He had with him an eight-page prepared statement, but he quickly set it aside-"I do not read a manuscript very well," he explained-proceeding to deliver the sort of speech for which he has become famous...
...been well aware of MacArthur's avowed reluctance to add his own words to the growing MacArthur legend. And now here was the old soldier already halfway through the job. Three months later, with an aide's alacrity and a friend's care, Whitney slipped the manuscript into a box and carried it to LIFE Magazine. Last week, in the publishing coup of the year, LIFE purchased all rights - publishing, movie and television - to the memoirs of Douglas Mac Arthur...
...life." It was his hope, said the old soldier, that the story would be "of some interest to the general public and some help to the future historian." Written in a firm and clear hand, from his own recollections and his own papers, MacArthur's 220,000-word manuscript was completed in six months. It takes the full measure of his illustrious career-World War I, his service in the Philippines, the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, which MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, stemmed at "the Battle of Anacostia Flats," the heroic triumphs of World...
...Japan, returned to the States at the end of July for the first time in more than two years. He spent a three-week vacation at his Belmont home, interrupted only by a quick trip down to Washington, and devoted much of his time to working on the manuscript of his new book. Work on it had been stalled since President Kennedy snatched Reischauer from his Harvard professorship of Japanese History in March, 1961, and made him Ambassador to Japan...
Among those reprimannded last spring was Yevtushenko, who evidently went too far when he gave the manuscript of A Precocious Autobiography to the French weekly 'L'Express for publication without official sanction. We are fortunate to have it, even though the indiscretion incurred for the author a great deal of public defamation, and cost him a projected trip to the United States...