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...called up the Waugh files, going back to shortly after his death [1966] to look for evidence, while trying to renegotiate some of the paperback royalty rates." Suddenly the familiar rustle of contracts became the startling flutter of serendipity. "Out of the 1970 file," says Sissons, "dropped a typescript of Chapter I of Charles Ryder's Schooldays...
...question remains: How did a 1945 manuscript by a major writer get lost in a welter of financial records? Sissons can think of only one reason: "Peters must have been clearing out his desk, found the typescript and just dropped it in the 1970 file...
...Ulysses. Although extremely nervous, Joyce delivered an impassioned reading. The result was a disappointment: the poor quality of the master disc overpowers the author. Later in England, Joyce read the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegans Wake with much better equipment. His eyesight failing, he read from a huge typescript, although he must have known the famous passage by heart. Here, his voice lilts and trips in a lively evocation of his Irish washerwoman. If Finnegans Wake seems impenetrable without guidebooks and glosses, its music is a revelation on the tongue of its creator: "Well, you know...
...half-inch above his bifocals. The effect is of a man always listening, or on the verge of some great surprise. It may be a habit nurtured by Viewpoint. His eyes would flit down to the typescript and stay too long. Then Helms would remember his 98,000 viewers and look up with a start. He does not smile easily, and his on-camera manner had the slightly sweaty earnestness that TV editorialists, North and South, exude by instinct. Unlike the rest of the breed, however, Helms was rarely bland...
...unveiled Jan. 23 in a televised presidential address to a joint session of Congress. Carter's foreign policy speech would ordinarily be part of the State of the Union message. However, the domestic sections of the constitutionally required annual assessment were scheduled to be sent, in typescript, up to Capitol Hill two days before the speech. By thus splitting the State of the Union address, Carter left no doubt that his new top priorities are foreign policy and defense. This amounts to an almost total reversal of the stress on domestic issues that characterized last year's State...