Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story flavoring has included mention in the press of secret hotel meetings, coded Telex messages, smuggled transcripts, hidden political struggles and numbered Swiss-bank accounts. The BBC put together an 18-minute show, complete with maps showing certain points where portions of the manuscript were supposedly delivered from the Soviet Union, and an on-the-scene report from the Copenhagen hotel where the final deal is said to have been made...
...second book, which was due to be published late next year. As usual, he dictated to his secretary from notes, frequently staring out the window at La Boisserie's ancient trees while searching for details in his prodigious memory. In the late afternoon, he looked over the typewritten manuscript, editing heavily in a firm hand...
When Bass and Nelson submitted their manuscript to World, the publishers sent out a promotional release emphasizing the criticism of the FBI. Two days later, Bass was asked by an FBI friend in Columbia if he could photocopy the book for "Mr. Hoover." Bass agreed, and was soon rewarded by a long, furious letter from FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover. "The book is so biased in its attempt to smear the FBI," said an angry Hoover, "that it raises serious questions as to the competence and objectivity of the authors." After a rebuttal by Bass, Hoover signed off a second...
...guarded the Lindbergh babies ever since the kidnaping and death of Charles Jr.-Lindbergh insisted on digging the grave himself. "It seemed an obligation that I, personally, must fulfill, and in which I could not let anyone else take part." Once, to ensure the arrival on deadline of a manuscript by his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he crawled out of bed to retype it for her, finishing at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...fine yeasts of his bourbon, to regard us over a glass rim while his eyes squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler's hot line drives into quick double-plays. This night, however, Mailer was less the athlete. He took a fighter's stance, to be sure, his left (or non-drinking) hand...