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...Said the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., editor of the Catholic magazine, the Queen's Work: "People in love are the worst possible ones to pick mates objectively." His formula for successful marriage: "The four Ms-mind, money, manners and meals...
...Yale University Library's manuscript collection, Babe Ruth presented a treasure: the MS. of his autobiography, The Babe Ruth Story ("as told to" Bob Considine...
Hokusai, first of the early 19th Century Japanese masters to make landscape his main theme, earned barely enough to live on, though the public thought much more of Ms work than he did. "At the age of six," he once remarked, "I had a passion for reproducing form . . . but even at 70 I had little skill. Only at 73 did I begin to understand how rightly to represent animals, birds, insects, fish, plants. At 90 I shall be better, at 100 I shall be sublime; at no I shall give life to every line, to every...
...century when the King James Bible was hot off the press, and England and Holland fought for New Amsterdam, Seaman Edward Coxere spun the hair-raising story of his life in simple-seaman's language, and sewed the quires shipshape in vellum. Rats alone chewed over the MS. until 1940, when it was unearthed by a London book dealer...
...MS. of Alice fetched ?15,400 at auction, and to date, in its 80 years of life, Alice has sold uncounted millions of copies. "How did it happen." asks Florence Becker Lennon, "that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, 30 years of age, lecturer on mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford . . . gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time...