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...pen is mightier than the sword-that man of letters ("Dear Mamma") Harry S. Truman...
After grappling with two ghostwriters on the issue of how memorable her memoirs should be (TIME, Oct. 17), the Duchess of Windsor joined the dwindling list of do-it-yourself autobiographers, sailed for Paris to take pen in hand, "starting from scratch," in tracing her own rise from Baltimore. Her new title for the yarn, slated to begin serialization in McCall's magazine next March: The Heart Has Its Reasons...
...debating the proposal to establish Advanced Standing, these people had warned that the plan would burden the College with teenagers who were exceedingly intelligent but frightfully immature. Hearing of the 13-year-old freshman, the skeptics now recalled their predictions and asserted that the Yard was becoming a play pen for prodigies...
...starring Humphrey Bogart. As it emerges from the Hollywood mill this time, the film has a theme nearly as silly as its new title: it argues that society should not put a confirmed criminal behind bars because he may resent it. Jack Palance, paroled after eight years in the pen, shows his exasperation by rapping assorted citizens on the skull with his gun butt and putting a slug into a guard who gets...
...producing a newspaper in Lahore. Says Carrington: "There had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame and fortune since Byron awoke one morning to find that the publication of Childe Harold had made him famous . . . 1890 saw the publication . . . of more than 80 short stories from his pen, many ballads and . . . a novel [The Light That Failed].'' Soon he was advising viceroys and was so famous that when he fell ill in New York (he married an American), crowds knelt in Seventh Avenue to pray for his recovery...