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When his Pulitzer Prize was announced, the then Assistant Professor of History was relatively unknown. The authorship of his book, which developed a wide popular appeal, was attributed to Solon J. Buck, now National Archivist, and even to Pearl Buck. Among the notes of appreciation he received was one from Margaret Mitchell, whose novel of the horrors of the Reconstruction contrasted so sharply with Buck's objective study of the healing of the wounds...
Woman of the Year(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was made to order for bold Katharine Hepburn. She saw to it that it was: she helped edit the script (authored by two comparatively unknown Hollywood-sprites: Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) sold it to Metro for an unprecedented $100.000, demanded and got her own leading man (Spencer Tracy) and (from a rival studio) her favorite director (George Stevens...
...this timid soul slowly killed his wife with arsenic, for reasons unknown, and skipped town when the police started to investigate the death. With his beard shaved, he looked very much like Goebbels, and very little like Muenter. He settled in Texas, took a college degree and the name "Frank Holt" and worked his way up the academic ladder till he was a professor of German at Cornell...
Hyman Bloom paints in the slums of Boston, in a studio heated with a rusty kerosene stove. Morris Graves paints birds in a lonely cabin near Campbell Lake in Western Washington. With 16 other U.S. artists, many practically unknown, Painters Bloom and Graves made their first formal appearance in the art world last week, chaperoned by Manhattan's stylish Museum of Modern...
...With nine turbulent years in office behind him and an unknown number of war years ahead, it would be astonishing if Franklin Roosevelt showed no signs of strain; it is astonishing that, most of the time, he shows so little...