Word: typescript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last war, Albion went to work writing the administrative history of the Navy, "following in Sam Morison's wake, a usual." Albion covered 50,000 miles, interviewed Admirals by their West Indian swimming pools, accumulated a squad of Wave secretaries, and filled 120 typescript volumes. He found the heat of Washington uncondusive to the writing up of all this material, however, and talked the Navy into moving the Waves up to his home city of Portland, Me. The stimulation of the salt air increased his productivity considerably and he shortly expects to bring out the first...
A.I.R.W.C.P.A. Davis has a small and untidy room-No. 5-on the second floor of the Hótel des Etats-Unis, down a corridor that is redolent with the smell of stale fried potatoes. He works there at a plain wooden table littered with typescript. He is the head of the "Association for the International Registry of World Citizens and People's Assembly." His admirers-in France they are legion-call him le petit homme. In the 26-year-old, carrot-topped, pleasant, shrewd and slightly corny Air Forces veteran they profess to see an authentic symbol...
...first the packed House of Commons was disappointed. Listening M.P.s had to remind themselves that Ernie Bevin was making history. He read his speech from typescript, too rapidly, sometimes gobbling his words. Afterwards, in the lobbies, Laborites agreed that "Ernie was bloody awful" in his delivery. But the history was in what he said, not in how he said...
Your review, in verse, of Dali's Macbeth [TIME, Dec. 9] is so clever that I should like to add the original manuscript (or autographed typescript) to our collection...
...Clue of the Crowded Commas. Next day belonged to Sparks and "The Clue of the Crowded Commas." "The Hopkins Letter" and letters allegedly written by Briggs turned out to share a typescript peculiarity: there was no space between the commas and the first letters of the words immediately following. Sparks popped up in the Senate Press Gallery, handed reporters a 20-page statement about his relations with Briggs, and gave an interview. He had already been before the grand jury. He admitted that all he had ever had in the way of proof of "The Hopkins Letter's" authenticity...