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...compelling book. But the husband-and-wife team of Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson (he's a former Washington bureau chief for TIME; she's a former correspondent for the Associated Press) is after something more ambitious with The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Houghton Mifflin; 445 pages; $27.95). The authors have given us a clear-eyed account of what happened to these luminaries as well as to broadcast journalism in the decades after World War II, in the process drawing a vivid portrait of idealists who believed that "a journalist should be the champion...
...York Times published a front page article yesterday claiming that a copy of Alcott's first novel, The Inheritance, had been found in Houghton library after being miscatalogued "a generation...
...press conference, Houghton Librarian Richard Wendorf said that the novel has been properly catalogued in the archives for 22 years and has been examined by scholars in the past...
When told about the University's claim that the novel had been around for years, Pratt said, "That's what I learned from Houghton, that it had been around, but the extent to which it was known to exist...is not something I understand completely...
...literary heirs of Louisa May Alcott presented and sold a significant collection of Alcott papers to the Houghton library during its 50th anniversary in 1992," Wendorf said. "Our Alcott manuscripts are on deposit in the library including The Inheritance [and] have been catalogued and fully accessible to the public since they arrived...