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Where Are They Now? From a photostat of the only copy of the first issue (in London's Public Record Office) Editor Monaghan carefully copies the writing style (including its heavy use of italics for emphasis) and does his best to get the printers to imitate typography. The first four-page number had its share of antiquarian whimsy (the Publisher regrets "his Inability to satisfy the Complaints of several of the original Subscribers . . . who say that they have not yet received their Copies. . . . The previous Editor . . . did not leave us a complete list of Subscribers"). But Monaghan was more...
...preface to the new 141-page psalter is a letter from Chiang to his great & good friend, Translator Wu, with a photostat of one of the Generalissimo's own editorial emendations brushed on the manuscript's wide margin. Says the letter...
...Rome last week able New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews somehow procured (he would not say where) and published Filippelli's 20-year-old photostat. The confession had been paraphrased in part in George Seldes' Sawdust Caesar. Matthews reported the full text...
Deep down in the basement of Widener, unknown to most undergraduates, is stowed away the Photostat Department of the Harvard College Library, which fills orders ranging from one page reproductions to the copying of entire books...
...under contract to NBC next winter, but next winter is a long way off. Maestro Toscanini might conduct the musical scoop this summer, if he liked the score. (But four years ago he had been offered the first performance of Shostakovich's Fifth, and declined.) So the photostat pages of the score were rushed to Toscanini, and NBC held its breath. He looked, said: "Very interesting and most effective." He looked again, said: "Magnificent...