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...warns enthusiastic musical illiterates not to "expect a rush of composers suddenly to sit down behind desks with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and begin pouring out a ream of symphonies on these machines. The Music Writer will simply be used instead of a pen when it comes to making finished copies...
...other detective stories are dwarfed by this one, in which the great dramatist himself supplies a wealth of clues . . . When the true author is known, the meaning of the plays is enhanced and their vitality surpasses anything yet devised by the mind or pen of man. The author, Edward de Vere [Earl of Oxford], was determined that his truth would sooner or later be known-" 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity . . ." DOROTHY AND CHARLTON OGBURN New York City
...Georges Auguste Escoffier, two of his disciples, Chefs Herbodeau and Thalamas, dish up the first full serving of the old master that Americans have ever been offered. Though better at stirring a sauce than pushing a pen, they know what they are writing about, and have garnished a life of Escoffier with an appraisal of his historic role in civilization's only indispensable art-cooking...
...real expert on concrete, he informed his guides. At home he had been fighting engineers who wanted to use steel, which was heavier and more expensive. ''Of course, you people use concrete out of necessity,'' he added. Signing guest books, Khrushchev grabbed the pen first, then turned to Bulganin. saying: "Here, Nikolai Alexandrovich, sign your name...
...write the works of William Shakespeare? Charles Dickens was positively jumpy about the problem: "The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon...