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...mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian to be chosen. The Guild's first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers $93,000 to be split 50-50. Reynal & Hitchcock have increased their own first edition...
...Chicago's public schools, where the low quality of handwriting is a much debated subject, manuscript writing (printing) is taught only through the second grade. After that, cursive writing (joining the letters together) is pretty much left to the discretion of teachers. A student in suburban Winnetka who had been taught to letter but not to write, tried to open a bank account, was turned down by the bank, which ruled that block lettering was too imitable a signature...
...From a manuscript which Msgr. Sheen, associate professor of philosophy at Catholic University of America, will edit for later publication...
Your review, in verse, of Dali's Macbeth [TIME, Dec. 9] is so clever that I should like to add the original manuscript (or autographed typescript) to our collection...
Eugene O'Neill got a gratifying pat on the back from a Manhattan judge. A bum accused of swiping the manuscript of an unproduced, unpublished O'Neill play from a parked car wanted the charge against him reduced from grand larceny to petty theft; but the judge firmly said...