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...West and that bright Florida sunshine had brought him back to bubbling good humor. Brisk and smiling, he waded through a man-killing schedule, clearing his desk for the big day. He went on television with a plea for the Red Cross campaign, accepted a leather-bound manuscript on "How to Be Prepared" from three bright-eyed little Girl Scouts, saw a group of Negro leaders, shook hands with oldtime Socialist Norman Thomas, and brushed off his weekly press conference in 13 minutes with a record burst of no comments...
...attacks on Mr. Acheson are . . . the same sort of thing that happened to Seward. President Lincoln was asked by a group of Republicans to dismiss Secretary of State Seward. He refused. So do I refuse to dismiss Acheson . . ." When he came to the final sentence, President Truman slapped the manuscript to his desk with the flat of his hand. That, said the gesture, was that...
...score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...
President Jordan will read the winning manuscript of the Christmas story contest at the all-college gathering in the Agassiz living room after the service. Judges for the contest, which closes December 11, will be Jordan, Dean Kerby-Miller, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and the 'Cliffe publicity director Joan Projansky '49. Twenty-five dollars will go to the winner...
...Press does not always guess right about sales appeal. A former Wellesley instructor submitted a biographical manuscript to which she had devoted 20 years. Four big commercial publishers had already turned it down. The Press accepted it but expected few sales...