Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nominal author of the book is Dr. Herman Taller, 50, a Rumanian-born physician who practiced obstetrics in Brooklyn and recently moved to Manhattan on the strength of his expanding royalties. But, said the FDA, publishers Simon & Schuster sent Taller's manuscript to a freelance sports writer, Roger Kahn, to be revised "in more of a mail-order inspirational technique." The book absolved fat ties of their guilt by crediting them with a metabolic abnormality. It exhorted them to eat as much as they wanted of most fat foods, especially those containing unsaturated fats (see following story...
...bequest of the Widener collection which included first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley. There were also volumes of the modern authors: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Stevenson, which in many instances were personally associated with their authors. Some copies contained presentation inscriptions; others, manuscript corrections and annotations...
Koppell was questioned most carefully about the authority under which he signed an agreement on March 28, 1941, acknowledging Martin's copyright to the 1941 "Let's Go." He stated that Burke was aware that Martin threatened to withhold his manuscript unless HEA agreed to acknowledge his copyright. But Koppell observed, "Mr. Burke did not order me to accept or reject Martin's conditions. He did express his concern...
...writing his memoirs, which are now all but complete and are only a few paragraphs shorter than the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the first volume will be published in London next year. He has gone over the manuscript again and again, tearing up thousands of sheets of paper, never happy with the often hazy images that his memory has supplied. Also, he is supposedly working on a screenplay about an aristocratic steamship passenger and a female stowaway, intending to star his son Sydney. He has also talked of a comedy about space travel. But most of that is idle whimsy...
...Heather Brooks. Mark has been scoring pretty heavily with Miss Brooks, but Bob Reese, homosexual Eliot House English tutor, is trying to undermine the affair because he's jealous. The Scott fans are in for some really tense moments when Chet (the Jet) Mirsky returns from Europe with the manuscript of his second novel, and he joins forces with Reese in trying to pry them apart...