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...this seemed a conspicuous waste. So they hired Critic Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America) to see what he could do with the remainder. He chopped, whittled and selected for about two years, occasionally taking time out to read choice excerpts (under the promise of strict secrecy) to breathless Harvard undergraduates. This week, after tossing out "trivialities, irrelevancies," as well as "thousands of commas and dashes," and toning down some of the more excoriating comments to a mere trickle of verbal lava, Critic DeVoto published the balance of Twain's autobiography as Mark Twain in Eruption...
...Lincoln Schuster is the more breathless half of Publishers Simon & Schuster. For 25 years he has worked on an anthology of notable letters. But he has been too busy publishing other people's best-sellers to complete one of his own. He was also hampered by an embarrassment of riches. As friends sent him new finds, the Schuster letter collection swelled, at last filled "many mammoth volumes." Whenever he decided to publish, a new "irresistible" letter would turn up. This week he finally got it off the press: A Treasury of the World's Great Letters...
...still has quite a way to go before he comes up to the level of Fulton Lewis Jr. Checking on a twelve-minute ad lib broadcast by Lewis from the Democratic Convention Hall in Chicago, McKay discovered only three and a half errors, a score that left him breathless. Close to Lewis on the McKay charts is Raymond Gram Swing who consistently scores a brilliant 17, has a perfect command of French...
Acutely aware of the U. S. people's yen to do something, somehow, if only somebody would tell them what, is Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Lately he has been swamped by thousands of letters and phone calls from misguided patriots, each with a breathless suggestion (almost invariably old-hat to the War Department) of how to speed up or bolster Defense. General Marshall is a patient man, but he has a job to do; such letters could better go to the President's new Defense Commission. One thing he is dead set against is turning...
...first half of this book, full of the breathless excitement of a child, is a moving record of this innocence. From there on it toughens and saddens. Richard was crazy for fame, and he became, scarcely realizing it, the captive and corruptive salesman of all that had been most genuinely graceful...