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Prior to the Manhattan auction, a paper manufacturer named Louis Schulman borrowed $5,000 to put to his own $10,000 to buy the manuscript and present it to President Roosevelt. Henry Jacques Gaisman, board chairman of Gillette Safety Razor, was willing to go to $7,500 to present it "to the American people." Before he could finish his speech bids went to $24,000 and the manuscript was sold to the ubiquitous Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach who calmed patriots by announcing that for a "small profit" he was acting on behalf of the trustees of the Walters Gallery...
...Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air." Every reader of James Joyce's famed Ulysses* will recognize this opening passage. But many Ulysses readers are not aware that Malachi ("Buck") Mulligan represents a real person, with other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty...
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...adept at creating sinister atmospheres, Author Hemingway has never whistled up an eerier spirit than in "After the Storm," a story of a Florida beach comber who discovers the submerged wreck of a liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess, but is unable to insult him. A shell-shocked U. S. soldier horrifies his Italian brothers-in-arms by getting the horrors...
...mission. Perhaps the easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced the great Secretary into dreams of electoral mastery; but the rough and tumble of a New York campaign should leave him content with new stamp issues and public speaking safely cloistered from the razor minds which discomfort...