Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back Later. In Albany, Calif., Clarence Ford and George Crawford escaped from jail, left a note: "Columbus took a chance. We can see they are going to throw the book at us so we are going to get as much freedom as we can. Please keep our toilet articles. . . . Also hold any mail because we know well get caught sooner or later...
...editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news got around, Quitman quickly showed what it thought of the Free Press and its editor. A new note got so many endorsers that Miss Edna could not find room for her own signature...
Paul Whiteman signed up the cherubic, long-lashed song-plugger when he was 18 ("I looked like an unfrocked altar boy"). In between his songs with the band, Downey sat with the brass section and pretended to blow a horn, although he could not play a note. His salary boiled up to $350 a week...
...Note: Mmmmmm...
...very rarely given to unqualified praise. But only experts, looking back over Bell's collected works, can appreciate how outspoken he has been about many forgotten figures among literature's briefly great. Occasionally, but not often, Bell reviews at length a book given him for a book-note. One such was Dr. Axel Munthe's recollections, The Story of San Michele (it was neglected by publishers who thought it was a travel book). Bell's favorable comment in the Herald Tribune Books was its only Manhattan review. The book sold 250,000 copies...