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...selection of Henry Ford papers, which will be placed in the Ford archives in Dearborn, Mich, next spring, was exhibited in Washington. Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think...
Awakening may seem a shocker, especially to Catholics, but it is no dirty-minded, adolescent scrawl. Rossi, a precocious youngster who was himself kicked out of a Jesuit school at 14, sometimes makes hero Denis sound and feel older than his years. Occasionally both author and hero show their immaturity in awkward, self-conscious yammerings about life. But as a picture of an adolescent agonizingly in love, or even as a simple love story, Awakening is done with enough skill and taste to establish Author Rossi as the Flaubert of teenagers...
Almost to the end, his fertile, facile brain kept tabs on all his outposts of empire. He still spread his papers on the floor before his bedroom chair, turning the pages with one slipper and bending down to scrawl his piercing critiques, giving his editors lessons in Hearstian journalism. Deskmen at the Los Angeles Examiner, nerve center of the chain, received small or great commands as late as 3 a.m. More frequently in later years they were relayed over the phone by Miss Davies, and whether they called for an editorial blast against Secretary of State Acheson...
Before his sight began to go, Thurber could punch a typewriter at a brisk pace. Never having learned the touch system, however, he is now forced to scrawl with soft pencils on sheets of bright yellow paper, getting about 20 words to a sheet, words which he cannot see, although he peers at them through a thick goggle. After he has finished the first draft of a piece, it is read back to him, and he makes oral revisions sentence by sentence. Thurber always was a relentless reviser (he rewrote The White Deer 25 times) so that his composition...
Their prototype was Hans Heinrich Lammers, an old man of whom few Germans and few Americans had ever heard; yet on every Third Reich decree his name had appeared, in a bold, inch-high sweep below the scrawl "Adolf Hitler." In his defense Lammers claimed that, as chief of the Reich Chancellery, he had merely acted as a sort of "notary public" or "glorified mailman." The prosecution thought otherwise. Next to Hitler, Lammers had been one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany...