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...York. He was soon living on a diet of beans, apples and rejection slips. When he had enough rejected poems for another book, he scouted vainly for a publisher. One house stalled him off for a year. The truth was that a member of the firm had mislaid the manuscript in a brothel...
...book, Physician Winter tries to filter Hubbard's strange mixture and pick out the scraps fit for human consumption. He rejects such gimmicks as the mental "file clerk," invented by Hubbard to chase about in the mind in search of mislaid impressions, and scoffs at the Hubbardians' "Guk" program. "Guk" was a mixture of vitamins and glutamic acid which was supposed to make dianetics subjects "run better...
Scottish Artist Archibald Robertson painted it in 1792, on commission from Washington's distant kinsman, the eleventh Earl of Buchan. The earl's fancy: to have a picture of his revolutionary relation as first President of the U.S. Supposedly mislaid, the picture was found hanging in the hall of the 15th earl in 1939, identified as Robertson's Washington. Last May, the earl sent it off to Sulgrave Manor (since 1914 a Washington shrine). Not especially publicity conscious, Sulgrave Manor just got around to announcing the acquisition last week...
...more legitimate curiosity about six men on a raft in the Pacific elevated to best-sellerdom a rousing record of adventure in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. In the midst of the new confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent. Yet some were important for the record and others still generated excitement. Easily the most exciting and important were Winston Churchill's third and fourth volumes of his great history of the war, The Grand Alliance and The Hinge of Fate...
...known whether the pellets, each approximately one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, were placed in the cow before or after death. One of the pellets has been mislaid, but the remaining two will soon be in the hands of the Department of Legal Medicine...