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...become a rich person here." She planned to give away large sums, and had no idea how much money she would be making. But, as every immigrant knows, America is a land of opportunity. Since she arrived, bids to publish and serialize her 80,000-word memoir, Twenty Letters to a Friend, have poured in from much of the world. The Book-of-the-Month Club, for instance, last week paid $325,000 to distribute the book when it is published next October, which is $75,000 more than it paid for William Manchester's Death of a President...
...prices were all the more remarkable since none of the buyers has read the book. It is still in the process of being translated into English by Priscilla Johnson MacMillan at her family's home on Long Island, where she is being assisted by Svetlana. Moreover, the memoir is said to contain few political revelations and not much awareness of Russian politics. The book, as Harper & Row puts it, is a story told "with a rare lyric intensity by a Turgenev heroine." Except that Turgenev never made $1,000,000 or more on a single book, no matter...
...Svetlana applied in the early 1960s to marry Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist living in Moscow. She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful." Trained as a writer and English translator, Svetlana was also aware that she could never publish her autobiography-a Life-With-Father memoir that the Kremlin would not allow to be printed. When Singh fell seriously ill last year with a respiratory ailment, he and Svetlana were not allowed to return to his Indian home village of Kalakankar...
...first effort as a bright young Harper editor after the war, Thomas edited Coral Comes High, a Pacific battle memoir by Marine Captain George P. Hunt, now LIFE'S managing editor. Ever since, Thomas has tirelessly pursued "instant history." Once he decides a man is worth a book, Thomas never lets him forget it. Well before the Kennedy assassination, he encouraged Theodore Sorensen to write a book. "When Sorensen finally decided to leave the White House," he says, "I was sitting on his doorstep...
Such childhood reminiscences are the best part of this slight memoir by Nicholas Roosevelt, whose father James West Roosevelt was T.R.'s first cousin and closest friend. While he brings no new insights on T.R., the author, now 73, nevertheless contributes to history by setting down recollections that nobody else could have supplied...